“But part of doing holy work includes doing it the way it was meant to be done: with every ounce of our beings as an act of worship. Holy ambition honors a holy God.”- Brian Jones “Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord.”- Colossians 3:23 (NIV) As […]
“Word pictures take a little more time and a little more effort to construct, but few things are more effective when it comes to speaking the truth in love.”- Mark Batterson Mark Batterson concludes Chapter 8 of Whisper as he posits that God speaks in moving and mental pictures because they effectively speak the truth […]
“Run to the roar. Set God-sized goals. Pursue God-given passions. Go after a dream . . . destined to fail without divine intervention.”- excerpt from “The Lion-Chaser’s Manifesto,” Mark Batterson Mark Batterson wrote Chase the Lion as a sequel to his firstborn book, In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day. In Chapter 1 […]
“It’s [Romans 8:1] the emergency exit from if only and the main entrance to what if.”- Mark Batterson Mark Batterson continues his discussion of Romans 8:1 in Chapter 4 (“Double Take”) of If. Mark strongly believes that the first verse of Romans 8 should be our first thought every morning. There’s no better way to […]