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Brian Combs
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As I look back on my life, it saddens me to acknowledge that some of my most painful wounds were inflicted by religious people — Gods people.
“If your version of Christianity involves a miserable submission rather than a glorious opportunity, you just don’t get it.”
― Distinctive Discipleship: Designing Specific Plans for Christian Maturity
― Distinctive Discipleship: Designing Specific Plans for Christian Maturity
“The church is in desperate need of a leadership community whose function is not just structured to achieve with efficiency but is more deeply shaped by the comforts and calls of the gospel of Jesus Christ.”
― Lead: 12 Gospel Principles for Leadership in the Church
― Lead: 12 Gospel Principles for Leadership in the Church
“Weariness is really about this core struggle to hope despite the circumstances and our limitations, and not so much about stress and being tired.”
― Leading with a Limp: Take Full Advantage of Your Most Powerful Weakness
― Leading with a Limp: Take Full Advantage of Your Most Powerful Weakness
“it is possible to hang around other Christians a lot, meet regularly for worship, study our Bibles, join a church and even call ourselves a community but not change at all in ways that count.”
― Life Together in Christ: Experiencing Transformation in Community
― Life Together in Christ: Experiencing Transformation in Community
“Since this is God’s universe there can be no higher “blessing” than to be approved by God. We must ask ourselves whose blessing we diligently seek. If God’s blessing means more to us than the approval of loved ones no matter how cherished, or of colleagues no matter how influential, then the beatitudes will speak to us very personally and deeply.”
― Jesus's Sermon on the Mount and His Confrontation with the World: A Study of Matthew 5-10
― Jesus's Sermon on the Mount and His Confrontation with the World: A Study of Matthew 5-10
Brian’s 2025 Year in Books
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