Jared Kingry

“Without a healthy sense of control, kids feel powerless and overwhelmed and will often become passive or resigned. When they are denied the ability to make meaningful choices, they are at high risk of becoming anxious, struggling to manage anger, becoming self-destructive, or self-medicating.”
― William Stixrud, The Self-Driven Child: The Science and Sense of Giving Your Kids More Control Over Their Lives

“… the question of what must guide all organizing activity in a parish is not how to keep people busy, but how to keep them from being so busy that they can no longer hear the voice of God who speaks in silence.”
― Henri Nouwen

“Planting is making a promise to stay near”
― James K.A. Smith, How to Inhabit Time: Understanding the Past, Facing the Future, Living Faithfully Now

“The perennial error is to equate holiness with morality and good works. Whenever sanctification is equated with good works, spiritual mischief follows. Then people are directed to their own inner disposition and spiritual preparations in order to achieve the level of sanctity that God demands in his law.”
― Harold L. Senkbeil, The Care of Souls: Cultivating a Pastor's Heart