discipleship

So often, it's others around us who can see where God wants to grow us even before we see it ourselves.

I thought parenting was going to reveal my strengths, never realizing that God had ordained it to reveal my weaknesses.

It__ easy to give God a list of excuses for not feeling worthy or as capable as someone else, in our service to him. The problem is that God doesn__ call those who are unprepared or incapable. He calls those who have the talent and ability to serve. He has it all planned out for us. Our challenge is to accept his calling and move out in faith believing in his promises of help and support.

Of Teddy Roosevelt and his siblings, the author writes they were, "armed with an innate curiosity and discipline fostered by his remarkable father.

The author describes the critic within us as adults as "the selves who live too much in their heads rather than their bodies, who are burdened with too much knowledge about how the world works rather than excited about how it could work or should, who are afraid of being judged and not being loved. Most adults do not live in a world of forgiveness and unconditional love, unless, that is, they have small children.

I am learning that man can live profoundly without masses of things.

He was perceived to be intellectually promiscuous, a little too eager to please all groups.

The knowledge worker cannot be supervised closely or in detail. He must direct himself toward performance and contribution

Tomorrow's freedom is today's surrender.

The author relates by way of illustration that the human heart contains both a throne and a cross. If we occupy the one, Jesus occupies the other.

Reagan understood an important distinction that (Lyndon) Johnson never grasped: being in control and being successful aren't always the same thing.

With passion you want to possess. The conversion of passion into compassion is the whole problem of marriage.

We reign over the united kingdom of time and eternity

Don't make peace with the sin in your life.

That which man doth, unaided by divine strength, God can never own. The mere fruits of the earth He casteth away

The more God-centered our worship practices, the more mercy-centered our life.

You do not become a __issident_ just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by your personal sense of responsibility, combined with a complex set of external circumstances_.It begins as an attempt to do your work well, and ends with being branded an enemy of society.

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'll have ...A God, essentially, of your own making, and not a God with whom you can have a relationship and genuine interaction. Only if your God can say things that outrage you and make you struggle (as in a real friendship or marriage!) will you know that you have gotten hold of a real God and not a figment of your imagination. So an authoritative Bible is not the enemy of a personal relationship with God. It is the precondition for it.