Ryan Dent

“helping other people better their lives is way more fun than obsessing about bettering your own. Awesome”
― Jon Acuff, Start: Punch Fear in the Face, Escape Average and Do Work That Matters

“Neither of these events that God foresaw ever actually happened. Once David hears God’s answers, he and his men leave the city. When Saul discovers this fact (v. 13), he abandons his trip to Keilah. Saul never made it to the city. The men of Keilah never turned David over to Saul. Why is this significant? This passage clearly establishes that divine foreknowledge does not necessitate divine predestination. God foreknew what Saul would do and what the people of Keilah would do given a set of circumstances. In other words, God foreknew a possibility—but this foreknowledge did not mandate that the possibility was actually predestined to happen.”
― Michael S. Heiser, The Unseen Realm: Recovering the Supernatural Worldview of the Bible

“Regardless of ability or stage, human life is sacred precisely because we are the creatures God put on earth to represent him.”
― Michael S. Heiser, The Unseen Realm: Recovering the Supernatural Worldview of the Bible

“As you guide, you’re going to disappoint people who want your time or your input or your attendance. And often you won’t be able to give it to them. But it’s okay to disappoint people, as long as you make sure you’re disappointing (and guiding) the right people. The biggest lesson for me was to not say yes to things I am ultimately going to say no to.”
― Jon Acuff, Start: Punch Fear in the Face, Escape Average and Do Work That Matters