“The grace of God is so pervasive that even the begats of the Bible are dripping with God’s mercy.”- Timothy Keller “And Jesse begat David the king, and David the king begat Solomon of her that had been the wife of Uriah.”- Matthew 1:6 (KJV) As Timothy Keller moves on in Chapter 2 of Hidden […]
“You have to turn your habits inside out and upside down. You have to reverse engineer them. Sometimes the solution is as simple as changing the sequence. Other times it requires interrupting the pattern by changing tactics altogether.”- Mark Batterson “For the battle is the LORD’s, and he will give you into our hand.”- 1 […]
“A lot of us want God to . . . show up and stay still. We want to pencil Him in for a few hours on Sunday and possibly a few prayers, a devotional book, or even a couple of chapters of the Bible during the week. . . . But when it comes to […]
“I struggled with David as a Bible character when I looked at his life in isolated incidents. We tend to do this to people in our lives too. We disqualify people because of one sin or one hurtful act instead of looking at them as a whole person who deserves to be loved despite their […]
“On the other side of the Inward Journey, ‘we are on the way to more complete healing, which entails a deeper awareness of our weaknesses. We can hear, see, touch, and smell the God of our salvation. We are becoming intimate with God in the fullest sense of the word intimate.”- Aubrey Sampson, citing Janet […]
” . . . a Christian counselor told me during my first session that she has found each of us believe a core truth about how the world works, and it’s usually wrong. In the vast majority of instances, these core beliefs have no basis in (1) truth of God’s Word and (2) reality itself.”- […]