“When you suffer, slow becomes necessary. Slow becomes good. . . . When you live slow for a season, the Son has access to the parts of you normally covered up by everyday put-ons.”- Lysa TerKeurst In Chapter 4 (“Tan Feet”) of It’s Not Supposed to Be This Way, Lysa TerKeurst talks about what happens […]
“People try to numb the pain of emptiness with things that make the hollow worse, not better. There are far more false comforters than real comforters in this area.”- Carey Nieuwhof Carey Nieuwhof concludes Chapter 13 of Didn’t See It Coming as he observes that the solutions we chase just end up introducing more problems. […]
“When we pray for God’s favor, what if sometimes the only way for him to truly bless us is to place us in total obscurity for a season?”- Brian Jones (emphasis author’s) Brian Jones continues Chapter 4 of Finding Favor as he asks a scary question: What if you didn’t get where you currently are […]
“Don’t fear the desert; it is there where you will hear God’s voice as never before.”- Os Hillman “Therefore I am now going to allure her; I will lead her into the wilderness and speak tenderly to her. There I will give her back her vineyard, and will make the Valley of Achor (trouble) a […]