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“Like faith and hope, trust cannot be self-generated. I cannot simply will myself to trust… What does lies within my power is paying attention to the faithfulness of Jesus.”

“To know God deeply, your pride must fall. And the only thing that has a chance of taking down your pride is His love.”

“…the reason people are offering ‘blemished’ animals is that they assume they can deceive God, and the reason they believe they can deceive God is because they assume God is not readily present or fully attentive to the worship of His people.”

How often do we not give God our best because we doubt He is even paying attention?

“God calls us to preservere in faith, not because He is a reluctant Father who is slow to meet the needs of His people, but because He wants us to step out in greater dependence and deeper trust in His ability to accomplish far more than we can ask or imagine ‘according to His power that is at work within us’ (Ephesians 3:20).”

“By giving up his life, John shows himself to be a model disciple. Herod, by contrast, loses his soul by caving to the pressure of others in pride and cowardice.”
The epidemic of male passivity is not new.

“When the pressure comes - whether through persecution, illness, accidents, loss of job, betrayal by a friend, a broken relationship, or the death of a loved one - God calls us to turn to Him in hope and faith, recognizing that He has a purpose and that, in the end, nothing can separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

“Jesus is the only true model of discipleship in the gospel.”

“There is an assumption here that trials and persecution will be part of the Christian life… When such trials come, only deep spiritual roots will prevent failure.”

“Wealth is deceitful because it provides the illusion of security but has no eternal value.”

On Mark 4:1-20 (The Parable of the Sower)