“Do the next right thing you know you ought to do. . . . Nothing will drive you into the Kingdom of God like trying to do the next thing that is right. . . because you will need help, and you will get it, because that’s where God is (emphasis author’s).”- Dallas Willard John […]
“No one has ever called people to more courageous self-awareness than Jesus did. The foundation of his call was grace.”- John Ortberg “Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks […]
The Imperfect Disciple (Baker Books, 2017) Jared C. Wilson, currently director of content strategy at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, recently published The Imperfect Disciple: Grace for People Who Can’t Get Their Act Together. In his Introduction, Pastor Wilson states he wrote the book to demystify discipleship. Because all of us need tuning up in the […]
“Patience is more than endurance. A saint’s life is in the hands of God like a bow and arrow in the hands of an archer. God is aiming at something the saint cannot see, and He stretches and strains, and every now and again the saint says — ‘I cannot stand anymore.’ God does not […]
“You boast in your constant inability to get your act together . . . by beholding a vision of the glorious Christ, whose power rests on you if you’re a believer.”- Jared C. Wilson Jared Wilson concludes Chapter 10 of The Imperfect Disciple as he notes the inadequacy of words to describe God’s glory. Consequently, […]
“It is true that sometimes God doesn’t become our only hope until God becomes our only hope.”- Jared C. Wilson Jared Wilson concludes Chapter 9 of The Imperfect Disciple as he notes that grace goes all the way down to our deepest pain. In fact, Pastor Wilson posits that we’ve all prayed “I just want […]
“When it comes to our dependence on God, it is all grace or no grace. . . . it must be grace all the way down. We bring nothing to his relationship except our nothingness. . . . We bring our pit and he brings his rope.”- Jared C. Wilson “But he said to me, […]
“The actual church is a motley crew of sinners who are more primed, together, to really experience grace than they would be if they were all apart.”- Jared C. Wilson “May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus.”- Romans 15:5 As […]
“This is how I like to think about discipleship, then — not just following Jesus, but refollowing Jesus every day. We go off track so easily (emphasis author’s).”- Jared C. Wilson Jared Wilson concludes Chapter 1 of The Imperfect Disciple as he notes we all “need tuning up in the gospel every day.” Thus, Jared […]
“Our Lord is more than able to take care of our past. He pardons instantly and forgives completely. His blood makes us worthy — all we are and all we have is by the forgiving love of God.”- A. W. Tozer, I Talk Back to the Devil In Chapter 6 (“Dare to Pray Without Condemnation”) […]
“Some things may be neglected with but little loss to the spiritual life, but to neglect communion with God is to hurt ourselves where we cannot afford it.”- A. W. Tozer “May you experience the love of Christ, though it is too great to understand fully. Then you will be made complete with all the […]
“Real freedom is not the external freedom to gratify every appetite; it is the internal freedom not to be enslaved by our appetites.”- John Ortberg In Chapter 12 (“Temptation: How Not to Get Hooked”) of The Me I Want to Be, John Ortberg tells of when he and his wife fly-fished for the first time. Reflecting […]