“Every day when you encounter God . . . you face the choice of simply looking at Jesus or actually trying to see him (emphasis author’s).”- Jared C. Wilson As Jared Wilson continues Chapter 3 of The Imperfect Disciple, he advises not to “believe the portraits of Jesus you got in your sweet little Sunday […]
“Many Christians . . . struggle to behold Christ’s glory because they have a generally decreased capacity for bigness in the first place.”- Jared C. Wilson Jared Wilson continues Chapter 3 of The Imperfect Disciple as he discusses what we can do to help us behold better. First, we must overcome our preoccupation with small […]
“While you can look without beholding — you can look at Jesus and not really see him — you can’t behold without first looking.”- Jared C. Wilson “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world.”- John 1:29 In Chapter 3 (“Staring at the Glory until You See It”) of The […]
“Every one of us knows the shame of guilty self-awareness and the fear of exposure. But we don’t want to life in the isolation of that darkness. We long for freeing relationships with others, especially God.”- Ray Ortlund “I will save the lame and gather the outcast, and I will change their shame into praise.”- […]
“Jesus wasn’t turning things upside down. He was turning them right side up.”- Jared C. Wilson “He disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame by triumphing over them in him.”- Colossians 2:15 As Jared Wilson continues Chapter 2 of The Imperfect Disciple, he stresses that Jesus was turning things right side […]
“Too many times we are in the dark cave of shame, crowded out by the stalagmites formed from a thousand years of sin, and we’re holding the gospel up to every narrow beam of light.”- Jared C. Wilson In Chapter 2 (“Good News for Losers”) of The Imperfect Disciple, Jared Wilson talks about the advantage […]
“This is how I like to think about discipleship, then — not just following Jesus, but refollowing Jesus every day. We go off track so easily (emphasis author’s).”- Jared C. Wilson Jared Wilson concludes Chapter 1 of The Imperfect Disciple as he notes we all “need tuning up in the gospel every day.” Thus, Jared […]
“Within the spiritual ecosystem of God’s saving sovereignty, in fact, our struggle is like the little squall stirred up in a snow globe. God is collecting all these little storms . . . doing something beautiful with us, and even in us and through us (emphasis author’s).”- Jared C. Wilson “There is therefore no condemnation […]
“Christian discipleship . . . means following Jesus wherever He goes. It means lashing ourselves to him like a sailor in a storm tossed boat might lash himself to the mast.”- Jared C. Wilson In his introduction to The Imperfect Disciple: Grace for People Who Can’t Get Their Act Together, Jared Wilson asks what comes […]
“What God calls us to cannot be definitely stated, because His call is simply to be His friend to accomplish His own purposes. Our real test is truly believing that God knows what He desires.”- Oswald Chambers Chapter 18 (“The Trumpet Call”) concludes Os Hillman’s The Joseph Calling. In this chapter, Os notes that knowledge […]
“God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty.”- Peter Marshall Os Hillman applies the Joseph calling to the larger stories of Jacob, Moses, and Paul, respectively, in Chapters 14-16 of The Joseph Calling. Next, in Chapter 17 […]
“Whenever you overcome life’s negative circumstances, God will give you an authority to raise up others and deliver them from their life’s circumstances.”- Os Hillman “My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as […]