“I am greatly persuaded,” wrote George Whitefield when he visited New England, “that the generality of preachers talk of an unknown, unfelt Christ. And the reason why congregations have been so dead is because dead men preach to them.”
“Suffering is not a problem that needs a solution as much as it is an experience that needs compassion.”
― The Broken Way: A Daring Path into the Abundant Life
― The Broken Way: A Daring Path into the Abundant Life
“Now the word ‘serve’ may have 26 meanings in the English dictionary, and we can make it mean anything I suppose. In the Hebrew it means to work for a master as a bondservant. It is important for us to keep in mind that serving means that we are not directing or dictating, but rather we are submitting to a master...
The problem with many Christians today is that they want to tell God how they are going to serve as well as the conditions of their serving. This is not acceptable as far as God is concerned. God is my owner and serving Him means I recognize His ownership and I am completely in allegiance to Him, nobody else.”
― A Cloud by Day, a Fire by Night: Finding and Following God's Will for You
The problem with many Christians today is that they want to tell God how they are going to serve as well as the conditions of their serving. This is not acceptable as far as God is concerned. God is my owner and serving Him means I recognize His ownership and I am completely in allegiance to Him, nobody else.”
― A Cloud by Day, a Fire by Night: Finding and Following God's Will for You
“If I was saved by my good works, then there would be a limit to what God could ask of me or put me through, I would be like a tax payer with rights, I would have done my duty, and now I would deserve a certain quality of life. But if I am a sinner saved by sheer grace, then there is nothing he cannot ask of me.”
― The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism
― The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism
“Live everyday like you're terminal, because you are. Live everyday like your soul is eternal, because it is!”
― The Broken Way: A Daring Path into the Abundant Life
― The Broken Way: A Daring Path into the Abundant Life
“We, the people with chronic soul amnesia, are called to be the remembering people.”
― The Broken Way: A Daring Path into the Abundant Life
― The Broken Way: A Daring Path into the Abundant Life
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