“If you want to understand your own behavior, you must understand that all sin against God is grounded in a refusal to believe that God is more dedicated to our good, and more aware of what that is, than we are. We distrust God because we assume he is not truly for us, that if we give him complete control, we will be miserable.”
― Rediscovering Jonah: The Secret of God's Mercy
― Rediscovering Jonah: The Secret of God's Mercy
“We recently walked through essential traits of a church according to the Bible, and they’re fairly simple and straightforward: •Preach his Word. •Share the gospel. •Pray fervently and frequently. •Worship together. •Give together. •Love one another. •Help one another grow in Christ. •Commit our lives together to making disciples and multiplying churches among the nations, no matter what it costs us.*1”
― Something Needs to Change: An Urgent Call to Make Your Life Count
― Something Needs to Change: An Urgent Call to Make Your Life Count
“Unless Jonah can see his own sin, and see himself as living wholly by the mercy of God, he will never understand how God can be merciful to evil people and still be just and faithful.”
― The Prodigal Prophet: Jonah and the Mystery of God's Mercy
― The Prodigal Prophet: Jonah and the Mystery of God's Mercy
“When you say, “I won’t serve you, God, if you don’t give me X,” then X is your true bottom line, your highest love, your real god, the thing you most trust and rest in.”
― Rediscovering Jonah: The Secret of God's Mercy
― Rediscovering Jonah: The Secret of God's Mercy
“What was there in the world more Western than Mozart, more civilized, more perfect? No eight hundred thousand voices could drone their chant to Mozart's notes. Mozart had never written to stir the masses, but to touch the heart of each single human being, in his private self.”
― The Camp of the Saints
― The Camp of the Saints
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