“When you yada-know the kindness of God, you can know there will be some kind of fruitfulness. Intimacy with God bears fruit for God. Intimate God-experience births God-obedience . Know the Way and you know the Way.”- Ann Voskamp “Let us press on to [yada] acknowledge him. As surely as the sun rises, he will […]
“In the beginning God created us in His image. We’ve been creating God in our image ever since. That’s how we end up with false identities, false narratives, and false securities. Identity issues are idolatry issues. ‘The human heart,’ said John Calvin, ‘ is a perpetual idol factory.” “- Mark Batterson “I will give him […]
“Without knowledge of self, there is no knowledge of God. Our wisdom, insofar as it ought to be deemed true and solid wisdom, consists almost entirely of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves. But as these are connected by many ties, it is not easy to determine which of the two precedes […]
“Surrender . . . a Copernican revolution of the soul in which I take myself out of the center of the universe and place God there.”- John Ortberg “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.”- Matthew 16:24 (NIV) In Chapter 5 (“Surrender” The One Decision […]