Nathan Boyd

“The greatest tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer, but unoffered prayer.”
― Justin Kendrick, Bury Your Ordinary: Practical Habits of a Heart Fully Alive

“What is our call? Faithful endurance. What does it look like? It looks like confession of sin and violently putting sin to death in our lives. To fight is to confess, to repent, to fill our lives with worship and prayer, and it looks like hospitality. It looks like dining room tables with people who are different from us sitting around them so that we might show them the love of God that we’ve received as His people. These things must be woven into the makeup of our lives.”
― Matt Chandler, The Overcomers: God's Vision for You to Thrive in an Age of Anxiety and Outrage

“E. M. Bounds, who said: What the Church needs to-day is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more and novel methods, but men [and women] whom the Holy Ghost can use—men of prayer, men mighty in prayer. The Holy Ghost does not flow through methods but through men. He does not come on machinery but on men. He does not anoint plans, but men—men of prayer.”
― Matt Chandler, The Overcomers: God's Vision for You to Thrive in an Age of Anxiety and Outrage

“the word busy is the symptom not of commitment but of betrayal. It is not devotion but defection. The adjective busy set as a modifier to pastor should sound to our ears like adulterous to characterize a wife or embezzling to describe a banker. It is an outrageous scandal, a blasphemous affront.”
― Eugene H. Peterson, The Contemplative Pastor: Returning to the Art of Spiritual Direction