God doesn't NEED raw material. He MAKES material.
Without a heart transformed by the grace of Christ, we just continue to manage external and internal darkness.
Trying to figure out God is like trying to catch a fish in the Pacific Ocean with an inch of dental floss.
A schoolmate of Matt Chandler's with the locker next to his: "I need to tell you about Jesus. When do you want to do that?
You and I are stymied in our own creativity. We can only create as sub-creators, and even then our best work is only sub-creation.
I see explicit covers on magazines, and they're getting even more explicit, and it's like, Are women being empowered, or is this just what sells magazines? Are they feeling pressured, or have they really come into themselves and are saying, 'I am wom...
We are supernaturalists first, not naturalists. The only reason we feel compelled to accommodate science is that science says we ought to. But it is science that should accommodate revelation. Revelation has been around much longer.
We spend so much time trying to put send to death that we don't spend enough time striving to know God deeply, trying to gaze upon the wonder of Jesus Christ and have that transform our affections to the point where our love and hope are steadfastly ...
The reality is that all God has to do is reveal himself to you,and you'll gladly join the mission in service to his kingdom. He doesn't force the issue; he just has to reveal himself as is: mighty,wondrous, gracious, loving, and radically saving. No ...
Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.
Erotica is not porn. It's explicit romance.
Marathon runners set explicit goals.
The really explicit phrase is doors of perception.
There's more to the erotic life than explicitness.
A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.
I try to make sure that the Buddhism is more or less implicit in the music rather than explicit.
There has to be a cut-off somewhere between the freedom of expression and a graphically explicit free-for-all.
Using official government resources to help bankroll an explicit political agenda - whether on the right or left - is flat out wrong.
Women deserve the same permanent rights and explicit protections given men in the Constitution.
One of the difficulties of photography is that it is much better at being explicit than at being reticent.
The Gospel of John makes explicit what all the Gospels assume - that is, the cross is not a defeat, but the victory of our God.
