Jamie A

“Christians have huge buts, where we believe everything but [insert excuse here].”
― Mark Hall, Thrive: Digging Deep, Reaching Out

“Humans are very attached to outcomes. We say we trust God but behind the scenes we work our fingers to the bone and our emotions into a tangled fray trying to control our outcomes. We praise God when our normal looks like what we thought it would. We question God when it doesn’t. And walk away from Him when we have a sinking suspicion that God is the one who set fire to the hope that was holding us together.”
― Lysa TerKeurst, It's Not Supposed to Be This Way: Finding Unexpected Strength When Disappointments Leave You Shattered

“The only way any of us will ever thrive is if we first learn Scripture and then just take him at his Word.”
― Mark Hall, Thrive: Digging Deep, Reaching Out

“The spirit flowed more freely and made for a more spontaneous style of worship.”
― John Grisham, The Confession