Sam Persons Parkes

“The move from text to sermon is a move from beholding to attesting, from seeing to saying, from listening to telling, from perceiving to testifying, from being a witness to bearing witness.”
― Thomas G. Long, The Witness of Preaching

“When you notice people dealing with the concrete realities of their lives through the practices of prayer and holy reading, it is a clue you have entered a culture of discipleship.”
― Michael W. Foss, Power Surge: Six Marks Of Discipleship For A Changing Church

“The problem is, of course, that the functions of leadership are not well understood. Leaders, according to John Kotter of the Harvard Business School, function quite differently from managers. Leaders are responsible to provide vision, raise up other leaders, and create useful change. Managers, however, maintain the present system and seek to enhance it. Sadly, most church leaders are, in reality, managers.”
― Michael W. Foss, Power Surge: Six Marks Of Discipleship For A Changing Church

“the holy things we need for healing and sustenance are almost always the same as the ordinary things right in front of us.”
― Nadia Bolz-Weber, Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People