How to Stay Standing Alli Patterson published How to Stay Standing: 3 Essential Practices for Building a Faith That Lasts in 2023. Alli holds a master’s degree in Biblical Studies from Dallas Theological Seminary. In addition, she serves as a teaching pastor at Crossroads Church in Cincinnati, OH. When everything is fine, Alli observes, no […]
“I always thought I was on solid ground, right up until my life collapsed. I had cracks in the foundation of my life, and I really didn’t see them. That’s the thing about foundations: no one cares about them when everything’s fine. . . . Cracks in the foundation are silent and don’t seem to […]
“The foundation for living in God’s peace is faith — an active, confident trust in His presence and power to sustain and comfort you — which frees you from fear and anxiety, no matter what the circumstances you face.”- Dr. Charles F. Stanley In Chapter 9 (“Why We Lose Our Peace”) of Can You Still […]
“I . . . reflect on that part of our lives that nobody sees — the foundation, the world that lies beneath the surface. The space where holy disciplines and hidden sins grow. It is from this interior, private world that our public lives will thrive or falter.”- Jeff Manion On Day 22 (“The Foundation”), […]
“It’s in the inner room where you encounter His love for you, where your love for Him is ignited, and where a root system of love for God is born.”- Banning Liebscher Banning Liebscher continues Chapter 7 of Rooted as he underscores that finding God is paramount. Because abiding with God represents the first call on […]
“Building a secret-place lifestyle like David’s is critical in our process with the Lord, because it is in our secret place that God meets with us and establishes the root system, the foundational elements, for the fruit that lasts.”-Banning Liebscher “But you, when you pray, go into your room, and when you have shut the […]
“It’s common for people to enter environments where God is moving and to feel uncomfortable. . . . Your comfort level should not be the thing that determines whether you can believe something is of God or not.”- Banning Liebscher As Banning Liebscher continues Chapter 6 of Rooted, he underscores that Jesus not only wants, […]
“God feels no pressure to rush or force His plan for our growth. He is calm, steady, and collected even when we want to speed things up. Our frustration will not make God speed up, because He knows we won’t get the results we prayed for.”- Banning Liebscher As Banning Liebscher continues Chapter 2 of Rooted, […]
“Commitment is the foundation of intimacy, because without commitment there can be no trust, and without trust there can be no intimacy.”- John Ortberg “The man who makes a vow makes an appointment with himself at some distant time and place.”- G. K. Chesterton, “A Defence of Rash Vows” In Chapter 7 (“We Should All […]