Please Sorry Thanks Mark Batterson titles his latest book Please Sorry Thanks: The Three Words That Change Everything (Multnomah, 2023). Mark ministers as lead pastor of National Community Church in Washington, D. C. One church with multiple locations. Pastor Batterson stresses that your words serve as both diagnosis and a prognosis. Therefore, to change your […]
“The only way a heart can ever be unafraid and untroubled is for it to be undivided. Why beg God to divide seas for me if my heart for Him is divided? . . . Why do I expect God to make a way if I’m often going my own way? – Ann Voskamp “You […]
“The appropriate, faithful response to God’s blessing is doxology – worship. Before God’s blessing is material or spiritual, it’s relational. Before anything else, God’s blessing invites us into relationship with him, which is also the genesis of abundant life with others.”- Tina Boesch Tina Boesch concludes Chapter 1 of Given as she notes that in […]
“Fight back the dark with doxology. . . . doxology can detox the day.”- Ann Voskamp In Chapter 10 (“How to Passionately Love When Your Heart’s Breaking”) of The Broken Way, Ann Voskamp observes there’s nothing quite as terrifying as being forgotten. Therefore, Ann states, in such situations, try to “curl comfort around the angst” […]