Yeah, but a hellbender never dies. You ever see a dead one?
You must prune dead or dying wood.
Retiring is just practicing up to be dead. That doesn't take any practice.
Now all my teachers are dead except silence.
I work with the dead, but I am working for the living.
This is not Johnson's war. This is America's war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.
The human brain has the unique ability to doubt the reality presented to itself. To comprehend the dissonance between ideas and the truth of the surrounding world. God knows this, and it infuriates him. It terrifies him.
God's Word is especially suited to directing those who want to focus primarily on the nature and direction of their own hearts.
So often, it's others around us who can see where God wants to grow us even before we see it ourselves.
The role of biblical counselors is facilitate the discovery of a greater God awareness through spiritual eyes that look at life through scriptural lenses.
Your purpose is God’s success. You can’t pay for what God want to be done. It’s God’s business; it’s his farmland, so when he said he’ll provide the rain, don’t doubt it!
In recent times, more and more human thinking has come to assume that the idea of a universal natural law and the idea of 'God' are pointing to one and the same reality.
A god who is capable of sending intelligible signals to millions of people simultaneously, and of receiving messages from all of them simultaneously, cannot be, whatever else he might be, simple. Such Bandwidth!
O child of God, be more careful to keep the way of the Lord, more concentrated in heart in seeking His glory, and you will see the loving-kindness and the tender mercy of the Lord in your life.
Whether our days trip along like the angels mounting on Jacob's ladder to heaven or grind along like the wagons that Joseph sent for Jacob, they are in each case ordered by God's mercy.
Our play is not something separate from our spirituality; it is itself a sign of the presence of God in the world.
Throughout the ancient world, naming was a sacred act. It was the word by which a child was called into his calling. It was the voice of destiny, summoning the child into his future with all its glorious promise.
God's love for his people is so great that it turns God against himself, his love against his justice.
And why are we supposed to be serious about God? Did God show up and crack the whip? “You there, Annie in Ohio, I see you laughing a lot and frankly it really pisses Me off . . . “ (50)
Belief compelled through fear is not belief, it is blind and forced obedience.
Prayers are like the powerful sounds of trumpets. When God's people come together and pray, the walls that challenge progress will fall.
