We stand, when we are young, on the sunny slope among the pines, and look across an unknown country to the mountains. There are clouds, but they are edged with light. We do not fear as we dip into the valley; we do not fear the clouds. Thank God for ...
and half of learning to play is learning what not to play and she's learning the spaces she leaves have their own things to say and she's trying to sing just enough so that the air around her moves and make music like mercy that gives what it is and ...
It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until he has hurt him deeply." God actually rises up storms of conflict in relationships at times in order to accomplish that deeper work in our character. We cannot love our enemies in our own stren...
God reminds us again and again that things between He and us are forever fixed. They are the rendezvous points where God declares to us concretely that the debt has been paid, the ledger put away, and that everything we need, in Christ we already pos...
To consume the best for yourself and give the crumbs to God is blasphemy. A heart that truly worships is a heart that gives its best to God in time and substance. A heart that truly worships God gives generously to the causes of God---causes that God...
Now, what happens if you eliminate anything from the Bible that offends your sensibility and crosses your will? If you pick and choose what you want to believe and reject the rest, how will you ever have a God who can contradict you? You won't! You'l...
God has the most incredible, unimaginable, inconceivable, and indescribable intention and design for your life.
No matter how offensive she's been to me, she continues to act as if she has some sort of God-given right to keep coming back for more favors.
God has ALREADY given you the strength you need, it's up to you to recognize that you were BORN a conqueror!
Let us see rather that like Janus—or better, like Yama, the Brahmin god of death—religion has two faces, one very friendly, one very gloomy...
Everything Satan has to offer you is a collection of what Jesus rejected; it is the garbage bin of Jesus Christ. Matthew 4:1-17.
Comparing yourself to others does nothing for you. Society has conditioned us to value people who fit a secular mold of perfection".
God has not given us the spirit of fear. So imagine where your fear coming from. It's from somewhere else!
Men are made for happiness, and he who is completely happy has the right to say to himself, 'I am doing God's will on earth.
Every moment God gives you is precious. Never take the life and moments He has given you for granted
God has certainly not called us to throw our brains out the window as an appropriate response to His Grace". R. Alan Woods [2012]
Psalm 57:1--Have mercy on me, my God, have mercy on me, for in you I take refuge. I will take refuge in the shadow of your wings until the disaster has passed.
What GOD has joined together, let no man put asunder. Your consummation is an eternal binding. It is a glorious mystery not realized by many, and abused by most." ~SCRIBER~
No pastor, no spiritual leader, is ever able to take his people any further than he himself has gone with God.
God exists. He has one wicked since of humor, and right now he’s having a grand old time punking the planet.
Man has 2 common problems with God: the one is that there is evil in the world; the other is that free will is limited. The one, he is charging that the world is too evil; the other is that it is not evil enough.
