We treat people harshly and call it “straight talking,” or skip private or corporate communion with God and call it “self-care.” You can’t confess something that you have convinced yourself you aren’t guilty of.
“There is no one we swindle more than we swindle ourselves. There is no one we run to defend more than we do ourselves. And like every other spiritually blind person, Joe was blind to his blindness.”
― Dangerous Calling: Confronting the Unique Challenges of Pastoral Ministry
― Dangerous Calling: Confronting the Unique Challenges of Pastoral Ministry
“This is why the Word of God is so essential in the daily, ongoing life of a believer. Because from the minute you close your Bible in the morning, you’re entering a world that’s fighting every truth and teaching it represents. At every turn. And if God’s message is not deep inside you, where you can meditate on it, return to it, and frequently call it back to mind, you won’t be able to discern what’s really true from what may be really intriguing, really alluring, really convincing, but really false. And really defeating.”
― Recovering Redemption: A Gospel Saturated Perspective on How to Change
― Recovering Redemption: A Gospel Saturated Perspective on How to Change
“I wonder if being angrily shouted at or arrogantly debated with has ever swayed a single person? Are human hearts moved by being ridiculed and mocked? When people fling accusations with the presumption of knowing another person’s intentions, what possible outcome could they be hoping for? Who would ever move to their enemy’s camp under such treatment?”
― Capital Gaines: Smart Things I Learned Doing Stupid Stuff
― Capital Gaines: Smart Things I Learned Doing Stupid Stuff
“The blacker the night around us grew, the brighter and truer and more beautiful burned the word of God.”
― The Hiding Place
― The Hiding Place
“Human beings are always assigning to themselves some kind of identity. There are only two places to look. Either you will be getting your identity vertically, from who you are in Christ, or you will be shopping for it horizontally in the situations, experiences, and relationships of your daily life. This”
― Dangerous Calling: Confronting the Unique Challenges of Pastoral Ministry
― Dangerous Calling: Confronting the Unique Challenges of Pastoral Ministry
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