Jesse Birkey

“A controlling God, who is usually represented by a controlling church leadership, is just not good news. How can church leadership create freedom and not more rules? How can we bring out the best in human beings and keep it at the surface even as we deal with their problems and shortcomings? Can we empower others and release them to live from their best natures and from the truest reasons they are alive? Will we as Christian leaders, parents, and employers take on the responsibility to learn how to draw out the dreams and destiny in the people we lead?”
― Danny Silk, Culture of Honor: Sustaining a Supernatural Enviornment: Sustaining a Supernatural Environment

“Doubt is not fatal. In fact, I would say a man who never doubts is either incredibly blessed or appallingly devoid of curiosity.”
― Brad Whittington, Escape from Fred

“Can I bring the Lord back into my mind-flow every few seconds so that God shall always be in my mind? I choose to make the rest of my life an experiment in answering this question. Frank Laubach1”
― Gregory A. Boyd, Present Perfect: Finding God in the Now

“If we remain surrendered to God, we’ve already died to everything decay and death could ever threaten to take away. Our treasure is no longer in things that moths can eat and thieves can steal (Matthew 6:19-20). Our heart is no longer set on things that aging and misfortune can affect. Our life is securely hidden in Christ, whose love never changes (Colossians 3:1-3). In fact, to the extent that we’re surrendered to God every moment, we’ve “been crucified with Christ and [we] no longer live, but Christ lives in [us]” (Galatians 2:20).”
― Gregory A. Boyd, Present Perfect: Finding God in the Now