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Book cover for Why They Stay: Helping Parents and Church Leaders Make Investments That Keep Children and Teens Connected to the Church for a Lifetime
In my tradition, the Southern Baptist Convention, a recent report noted that 80% of the 45,000 churches in the SBC had seen 0-1 young adults baptized from the ages of eighteen to twenty-nine in an entire year.
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Joe Posnanski
“But Jackie Robinson was a man of faith. I do not just mean faith in God, though he was indeed a religious man. He also had extraordinary faith in himself and his destiny. He believed deeply that he was the one meant to cross baseball's color line. He believed deeply that God would not have led him down this path only to fail.
That faith filled him with something more powerful that confidence.
He knew that we would succeed because to do anything less would be unthinkable.”
Joe Posnanski, The Baseball 100

“After a few encouraging words, he closed with a statement that has become an anchor for my soul and often my target in lament: “Keep trusting the One who keeps you trusting.”
Mark Vroegop, Dark Clouds, Deep Mercy: Discovering the Grace of Lament

“Those blessings will become burdens if you let fear control you and convince you that something terrible is about to happen, that the relationship will fail, or you won't succeed at work. Fear does that because it's there to destroy, ruin, take away peace, and disrupt our relationship with God.”
Sydney McLaughlin, Far Beyond Gold: Running from Fear to Faith

“But lament is different. The practice of lament—the kind that is biblical, honest, and redemptive—is not as natural for us, because every lament is a prayer. A statement of faith. Lament is the honest cry of a hurting heart wrestling with the paradox of pain and the promise of God’s goodness.”
Mark Vroegop, Dark Clouds, Deep Mercy: Discovering the Grace of Lament

Peter Hathaway Capstick
“After all, if the lion doesn’t eat you personally, you won’t have to wait long until the vultures, ants, hyenas, and jackals do. Africa is astoundingly efficient in the disposal of protein.”
Peter Hathaway Capstick, Death in the Long Grass: A Big Game Hunter's Adventures in the African Bush

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