“You can’t understand most of the important things from a distance, Bryan. You have to get close,” she told me all the time.
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“He does not show Himself to us in order merely that we may know, but in order that, knowing, we may do, and, what is more than either knowing or doing, in order that we may be.”
― The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon
― The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon
“By God’s grace I can resist the temptation to treat my children as interruptions to my will for my life. Instead, God enables me to treat my children as precious gifts he is using to shape me into his image according to his will for my life.”
― Treasuring Christ When Your Hands Are Full: Gospel Meditations for Busy Moms
― Treasuring Christ When Your Hands Are Full: Gospel Meditations for Busy Moms
“We can rest, because he worked. We can lay down our prideful busyness, because he laid down his life. We can keep coming back to him in the midst of our failures, because he keeps all his promises to us.”
― Crazy Busy: A (Mercifully) Short Book about a (Really) Big Problem
― Crazy Busy: A (Mercifully) Short Book about a (Really) Big Problem
“In times of difficulty, if we die to self and put God’s will first (Matt. 6:33), we can be sure that He will either take us out of the trouble or bring us through.”
― Be Committed (Ruth & Esther): Doing God's Will Whatever the Cost
― Be Committed (Ruth & Esther): Doing God's Will Whatever the Cost
“We need the gospel of grace and the grace of the gospel. Children can’t use the law any more than we can, because they will respond to it the same way we do. They’ll ignore it or bend it or obey it outwardly for selfish purposes, but this one thing is certain: they won’t obey it from the heart, because they can’t. That’s why Jesus had to die.”
― Give Them Grace: Dazzling Your Kids with the Love of Jesus
― Give Them Grace: Dazzling Your Kids with the Love of Jesus
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