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“Being on mission is not always about going to a specific place—it’s about being intentional where you are. That’s investment. And investment is always intentional. It’s a lifestyle choice.”
― Life on Mission: Joining the Everyday Mission of God
― Life on Mission: Joining the Everyday Mission of God
“Midlife doesn’t introduce you to a new you; it forces you to admit who you have been all along.”
― Lost in the Middle: MidLife and the Grace of God
― Lost in the Middle: MidLife and the Grace of God
“God without Christ is no God.”
― Don't Waste Your Life
― Don't Waste Your Life
“you’re not on mission where you are now, you won’t be on mission where you’re going.”
― Life on Mission: Joining the Everyday Mission of God
― Life on Mission: Joining the Everyday Mission of God
“To be cynical is to be distant. While offering a false intimacy of being "in the know," cynicism actually destroys intimacy. It leads to a creeping bitterness that can deaden and even destroy the spirit...
A praying life is just the opposite. It engaged evil. It doesn't take no for an answer. The psalmist was in God's face, hoping, dreaming, asking. Prayer is feisty. Cynicism, on the other hand, merely critiques. It is passive, cocooning itself from the passions of the great cosmic battle we are engaged in. It is without hope.”
― A Praying Life: Connecting With God In A Distracting World
A praying life is just the opposite. It engaged evil. It doesn't take no for an answer. The psalmist was in God's face, hoping, dreaming, asking. Prayer is feisty. Cynicism, on the other hand, merely critiques. It is passive, cocooning itself from the passions of the great cosmic battle we are engaged in. It is without hope.”
― A Praying Life: Connecting With God In A Distracting World
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