“Death, pandemics, injustice, social breakdown – we again desperately need a stone of hope. And there is no greater hope possible than to believe that Jesus Christ was raised from the dead. . . . If you grasp this great fact of history, then even if you find things going dark, this hope becomes a […]
“Hope is the melody of the future. Faith is dancing to that melody right now.”- Lysa TerKeurst “Very truly I tell you, you will weep and mourn while the world rejoices. You will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy. . . . Now is your time of grief, but I will see you […]
“Faith is not the absence of doubt. Faith is simply a willingness to keep asking the hard questions. As my mentor Lynn Anderson says, “Faith is the decision to follow the best light you have about God and not quit.”- Max Lucado “[John] stooped and looked in and saw the linen wrappings lying there, but […]
“Stare at the glory of God until you see it.”- Ray Ortlund “Now if the ministry of death, carved in letters on stone, came with such glory that the Israelites could not gaze at Moses’ face because of its glory, which was being brought to an end, will not the ministry of the Spirit have […]
“Our world may be torn apart and our losses in the material world may be significant, but there are great riches we gain from the Joseph process that will be used in our lives and in the lives of others. We need to be grateful that God considers us worthy for the assignment.”- Os Hillman […]
“Isn’t this our first reaction when life seems overwhelming — we start lightening the load, dumping cargo overboard so we don’t drown? The problem is, we can dump the wrong things overboard. We think nothing of tossing over joy while hanging on to the very things that overwhelm us.”- John Eldredge John Eldredge concludes the […]
“Just keep walking. Allow your soul to be directed and guided by God. He is faithful, and he will work in you and on you for the rest of your life.”- Judah Smith “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.”- Revelation 22:13 Judah Smith concludes […]
“Pick up your cross. It’s the only way you or anyone else can know a resurrection.”- Ann Voskamp Ann Voskamp complete Chapter 10 of The Broken Way by stating that suffering’s present around every corner. Furthermore, suffering lurks in every act of love. As a result, in order to bear love out into the world, […]
It take courage to listen with our whole heart to the tick of God’s timing rather than march to the loud beat of our fears.”- Ann Voskamp “It [time] looks like a river of Nows. Unbounded. Broken free.”- C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters Ann Voskamp concludes Chapter 4 of The Broken Way by noting […]
“Verse 3 [Romans 8] is the ultimate what if– ‘If God is for us, who can be against us?’ But the if in verse 10- ‘If Christ is in you’- is the ultimate as if.” Mark Batterson concludes Chapter 10 of If by noting that sports teams often memorialize a fallen comrade by putting that person’s […]
“Lord . . . if you had been here, my brother would not have died. But I know that even now God will give you whatever you ask.”- John 11:21-22 Mark Batterson states in Chapter 23 of The Grave Robber that many Christians only remember Christ’s resurrection at Easter. The other 364 days they live […]
“Lazarus had died, and for you sake I am glad that I was not there.”- John 11:14-15 (ESV) Mark Batterson begins Chapter 23 (“Even Now”) of The Grave Robber by wondering why on earth Jesus would say, “For your sake, I am glad I was not here.” Furthermore, Jesus had delayed coming for two days. […]