discipleship

We need alert listeners to give dignity to those stretches in our lives when we are not aware of participating in anything we think might be embraced by the kingdom of God.

Focusing on effective leadership without focusing on a willingness to follow is like studying clapping by studying only the left hand.

God's Fatherly prerogative, " is a kingly attribute so sweetly veiled in love, that the King's crown is forgotten in the King's face, and His sceptre becomes, not a rod of iron, but a silver sceptre of mercy__he sceptre indeed seems to be forgotten in the tender hand of Him who wields it.

The author says crises tend to reveal the connectivity of systems that had previously been study only in isolation.

Pandering candidates often promise that they can make the pain go away.

As you call people to submit to the Person of Christ, you can trust the Spirit of Christ to lead them to salvation.

When you take your place as the authority figure in your home, your child will feel more safe in the real world, not the screen world.

He was cross-examining my subconscious .

At the approach of a certain dark hour, the light of Heaven fills those who are quitting the light of Earth.

The purpose of prayer is not for the disciple to give information to God. The purpose of prayer is intimacy with God.

It is in my internal and external struggles, when it feels like someone is river-dancing on my last nerve, that the fruit of the Spirit is developed.

If you know EVERYONE, you don't know ANYONE.

It's remarkable how very many things there are that a king may not do.

Action without prayer thins out into something very exterior. A prayerless life can result in effective action and accomplish magnificent things, but if there is no developed interiority, the action never enters into the depth and intimacy of relationships.

Almost anything at all can be transmuted into a labyrinth.

People HAVE used me. But it don't matter I don't let it change me. _ Mohammed Ali

Almightiness and wisdom combined will make no failures.

There is nothing more common than for people who want to talk about God to lose interest in the people they are talking to.