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“What if we really were known by our love and not by the stereotypes? What if we became authentically infected with the love of Christ? What kind of influence would we have if we were sneezing a pure and true Jesus who was vibrant and alive within us and not just a mythical superhero?”
― Sneezing Jesus: How God Redeems Our Humanity
― Sneezing Jesus: How God Redeems Our Humanity
“Not long ago I was watching the film A Story Worth Living with my sons. The film concludes with everyone enjoying a lovely Colorado evening at twilight. The characters sit in a circle around a fire. The discussion is about wholeness and the soul’s longing for a time of complete restoration and what that might be like. “That nothing is between me and any other person—no misunderstanding” was how one character described this wholeness. Another added, “That everything I have lost will be returned.” Nods of approval and expressions of affirmation filled in the space. Then another spoke: “That nothing is lost and that there are no more good-byes.” This is shalom. This is what we were made for. It is how life is supposed to be for us. This is humanity in its glory, but it waits. It cannot be while we live fallen. And perhaps it cannot fully be realized until the Savior’s return—but we can have so much more right now than we might realize.”
― Sneezing Jesus: How God Redeems Our Humanity
― Sneezing Jesus: How God Redeems Our Humanity
“As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it. (Isaiah 55:10 – 11)”
― Passages: How Reading the Bible in a Year Will Change Everything for You
― Passages: How Reading the Bible in a Year Will Change Everything for You
“The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still. A. W. TOZER”
― Reframe: From the God We've Made to God With Us
― Reframe: From the God We've Made to God With Us
“The Bible isn’t hocus pocus and reading it doesn’t give you magical powers, but it does reveal to you who you really are and illumines a path that you were created to walk.”
― Passages: How Reading the Bible in a Year Will Change Everything for You
― Passages: How Reading the Bible in a Year Will Change Everything for You
“We think we know a lot about many things, including God. And we’ve created a box or a frame for this knowledge because it gives us some sort of context to explain what is unexplainable. But what if all that knowledge won’t fit in the box? What if we get a bigger box and it still won’t fit? What if all that we think we know has been forced into the wrong frame? We can keep looking at the picture, knowing there is something off about it, or we can take it down from the wall and reframe it. We need to rethink what we know about God and how we relate to Him. Then perhaps we can reframe the relationship. Maybe we can give it something a little roomier. Possibly a bigger frame for our understanding of God will mean a bigger life for us.”
― Reframe: From the God We've Made to God With Us
― Reframe: From the God We've Made to God With Us
“No amount of “quiet time” devoted to studying facts about God can replace inviting Him into every thought, word, and deed of our lives.”
― Reframe: From the God We've Made to God With Us
― Reframe: From the God We've Made to God With Us
“God has heaped gifts on you that are beyond extravagant. You’ve been given the gift of the Holy Spirit to tell you the truth.[10] You have the gift of the Holy Scriptures to guide your every step and decision.[11] You have the gift of a gorgeous, lavish, exquisite planet to live on.[12] You’ve been given the gift of companionship.[13] You may have the gift of precious children.[14] You’ve been given the gift of an existence that will never, ever end.[15] You have the gift of God’s own Son.[16] And that’s barely scratching the surface of the generosity that God has bestowed on you.”
― Reframe: From the God We've Made to God With Us
― Reframe: From the God We've Made to God With Us
“God’s heart is so invested in a relationship that He uses imagery only a deeply betrayed lover could truly understand.”
― Reframe: From the God We've Made to God With Us
― Reframe: From the God We've Made to God With Us
“That you are here is a gift. A beautiful, extravagant, decadent, overgenerous, excessive gift. Something precious given by One who is hopelessly in love with you. Desperately enamored of you. Fascinated beyond words with you and longing to collaborate in what comes next for you. God is so invested in you that He put His own breath in you, molded you in His image, and stood back and said that you are “good.”[7] God was dreaming about you before you ever showed up.”
― Reframe: From the God We've Made to God With Us
― Reframe: From the God We've Made to God With Us
“May we be strong enough to be weak enough to let God be who He is inside us.”
― Reframe: From the God We've Made to God With Us
― Reframe: From the God We've Made to God With Us
“At any time, you can rethink your life and reinvent yourself. DENISE PITRE”
― Reframe: From the God We've Made to God With Us
― Reframe: From the God We've Made to God With Us
“The Bible is the long and continuing story of a God who will not surrender what He sees as precious and of a people who get to make their own decisions and live with them.”
― Reframe: From the God We've Made to God With Us
― Reframe: From the God We've Made to God With Us
“The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy, your whole body will be full of light. 23But if your eyes are unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!”
― NIV Passages Bible: Read through the Bible in a Year
― NIV Passages Bible: Read through the Bible in a Year
“I just want to love God with all my heart and be known by Him while being true to the Scriptures.”
― Reframe: From the God We've Made to God With Us
― Reframe: From the God We've Made to God With Us
“Perhaps you had no control over your creation, but you have momentous control over what you create.”
― Reframe: From the God We've Made to God With Us
― Reframe: From the God We've Made to God With Us
“One of the beautiful things we find in the gospel of Jesus is that we are allowed to come as we are into the relationship.”
― Reframe: From the God We've Made to God With Us
― Reframe: From the God We've Made to God With Us
“The same passion God has for us, we need to have for Him, and that has ignited a fire inside me. A revolutionary fire.”
― Reframe: From the God We've Made to God With Us
― Reframe: From the God We've Made to God With Us
“But fire burns things. It consumes things. Much of what is being consumed are things I don’t need anymore. I don’t need those wounds. I don’t need those idols. I don’t need those ambitions. The fire is burning away things and making more room for God to occupy. But how I desperately want to hold on to some of the things that have been poison to me.”
― Reframe: From the God We've Made to God With Us
― Reframe: From the God We've Made to God With Us
“We’ve all been following the same script: “God is sovereign and He does love you, but He’s not completely reliable. You just don’t know what He’ll do. When push comes to shove, you have to be ready to act on your own because He might not come through.”
― Reframe: From the God We've Made to God With Us
― Reframe: From the God We've Made to God With Us
“But Genesis covers more time than any other book of the Bible—more time than the remainder of the Old Testament combined. Within the first eleven chapters of Genesis, we will cover a couple of millennia and a couple of thousand miles before slowing things down and focusing on several specific generations of people who fundamentally shape the rest of the Bible and influence our world today.”
― The One Year Adventure with the God of Your Story
― The One Year Adventure with the God of Your Story
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. — Margaret Mead”
― Passages: How Reading the Bible in a Year Will Change Everything for You
― Passages: How Reading the Bible in a Year Will Change Everything for You
“No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.”
― NIV Passages Bible: Read through the Bible in a Year
― NIV Passages Bible: Read through the Bible in a Year
