“When you praise God for partial miracles, you are prophesying your praise! Gratitude is praising God after He does the miracle. Faith is praising God before He does. It’s like a downpayment on a miracle. Thank God before it happens, then see what happens! That thanks might just have a domino effect.”- Mark Batterson “Let […]
“Jesus identified common cues that tempt us and test us and tick us off. Then He interrupted the pattern in ingenious ways. In a dog-eat-dog world, the Sermon on the Mount calls us to live counterculturally. Jesus stopped the vicious cycle and replaced it with the virtuous cycle.”- Mark Batterson “You have heard that it […]
“And these acts of kindness, gifts of grace, they start a cascade of grace to fill a multitude of canyons in a hurting world.”- Ann Voskamp “Give away your life; you’ll find life given back, but not merely given back — given back with bonus and blessing. Giving, not getting, is the way.”- John 6:38 […]
“Faith isn’t linear Faith is exponential.”- Mark Batterson Mark Batterson begins Chapter 16 (“Chain Reactions”) of Chase the Lion by citing a research study on domino chain reaction. Published in 1983 by Lorne Whitehead, the unique significance of the study lays in the discovery that a domino possesses the capability of knocking over a domino […]