Anxious for Nothing (Thomas Nelson, 2017) Max Lucado titles his latest book, based on Philippians 4:4-8, Anxious for Nothing: Finding Calm in a Chaotic World . Pastor Lucado opens with this chilling description of anxiety: “It’s a low-grade fear. An edginess. A dread. A cold wind that won’t stop howling.” In contrast, the apostle Paul […]
“A happy saint is one who is at the same time aware of the severity of sin and the immensity of grace. Sin is not diminished, nor is God’s ability to forgive it. The saint dwells in grace, not guilt. This is the tranquil soul.”- Max Lucado “But all these thing that I once thought […]
“Guilt sucks the life out of our souls. Grace restores it. The apostle Paul clung to this grace. To the same degree that he believed in God’s sovereignty, he relied on God’s mercy.”- Max Lucado Today, as found in Chapter 3 of Anxious for Nothing, Max Lucado discusses the final five ways we deal with our […]
“Your soulprint . . .[is] the truest thing about you. It’s your God-ordained passion, your God-given gifts, and your God-sized dreams. It’s the potential that can be tapped only in a relationship with the One who gave it to you in the first place.”- Mark Batterson As Mark Batterson concludes Chapter 9 of Whisper, he […]
“The only way to overcome these self-defeating dimensions of our personalities is ruthless self-discovery. And it’s so much more than self-help.”- Mark Batterson “Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God.”- John Calvin As Mark Batterson continues Chapter 9 of Whisper, he discusses the third quadrant of the Johari window. 3. The blind […]
“We all have a great cloud of witnesses, and that cloud consists of anybody and everybody who has influenced our lives. . . . To believe that any of those people are in our lives by happenstance is to grossly underestimate the sovereignty of God.”- Mark Batterson “Since we are surrounded by such a great […]
“There is a very subtle form of idolatry called bibliolatry. It involves treating the Bible as an end in itself instead of a means to an end.”- Mark Batterson In Chapter 5 (“The Key of Keys”) of Whisper, Mark Batterson discusses the first love language – Scripture. He notes the challenge the Bible, the inspired […]
“Although I wait for healing and restoration, I do not wait alone. We have the spirit of Christ with us always.”- Ann Swindell “I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, even the spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him […]
” . . . if we remain paralyzed and if we refuse to risk staying tender and needy before God, then we are risking . . . missing out on the opportunity for closeness and intimacy with him and with others.”- Ann Swindell Ann Swindell concludes Chapter 8 of Still Waiting as she underscore the […]
I’d Like You More If You Were More Like Me (Tyndale, 2017) Pastor and author John Ortberg titles his latest book I’d Like You More If You Were More Like Me: Getting Real About Getting Close. Although we crave intimacy, it remains a scary concept for a lot of people. Therefore, intimacy cannot be coerced. […]
“No one becomes real without getting close, without being loved. And love, like grace, sneaks up on us mostly when we’re unaware.”- John Ortberg “This is real love — not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins.”- 1 John 4:10 (NLT) […]
“Rejection builds fences. Acceptance digs wells.”- John Ortberg “See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God. And that is what we are! . . . And what we will be has not yet been made known.”- 1 John 3:1-2 John Ortberg concludes Chapter 11 of […]