“Before you participate in shame’s campaign, turning away from your own needs, remember, your longings are good, God-given even. . . . Need draws us toward each other. We were meant to be engaged in a dance of giving and receiving. Our need was given to braid us into the loving care of the Trinity.”- […]
“Influence comes through conversations. Jesus knew this. The Bible records Jesus speaking to crowds only fifteen times, but having forty one-on-one conversations. If we let fear stop us, we will miss out on the impact God intends for us to have.”- Kyle Idleman “Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the […]
“Instead of seeing a wandering mind as a failure to pray as we ought, we should see this as an opportunity to pray about the deep longings of our souls. . . . Our call is to bring this to the Lord, who meets us in the truth about ourselves as ones who need grace […]
“The grip of regret can be more than demoralizing, it can be paralyzing.”- Kyle Idleman In Chapter 3 of Grace Is Greater, Pastor Kyle Idleman tackles the subject of learning to live with regrets. First, he describes the grip of regret: “We can’t seem to move forward because we obsess over something that has already […]
“But here’s a surprising characteristic about grace – grace chases you. You can run away and hide, but grace is relentless. Grace will chase you down.”- Kyle Idleman “So he [Jesus] left Judea and went back once more to Galilee. Now he had to go through Samaria.”- John 4:3-4 In Chapter 2 (“More Beautiful Than Your […]