True Stewardship

Social justice is not a tip off the excess... It is a true stewardship of the resources that God has entrusted us with. ~Dan Boone

Secret Place

"It is those Christians who have a history with God in the secret place who triumphantly survive the fiery trials of the way." ~ Watchman Nee

Main Lesson About Prayer

"The main lesson about prayer is just this: Do it! Do it! Do it! You want to be taught to pray. My answer is pray and never faint, and then you shall never fail…" ~ John Laidlaw

Life

"The Pharisees assumed that knowledge of the written scriptures would give them life. They were satisfied with having the words instead of experiencing the Person who spoke the words." ~ Henry Blackaby

Sins Defeat Us...Unless...

Our sins defeat us unless we are willing to recognize them, confess them, and so become healed and whole and holy- not qualified, mind you, just holy. ~ Madeleine L'Engle

The End of Me

"The end of me, the gutter and grave of my life experience, is where I encounter the power and redemption of God." ~ Kyle Idleman

How to See Furthest

"In a kneeling position I can see furthest - into the very heart of God." ~ E. Stanley Jones

True Discipleship

"True discipleship is an outgrowth of love for Him...Jesus values our affections even more than our works." ~ Chris Tiegreen

Stand Along Beside Them

We were not really trying to change who they are...we just wanted to stand along beside them and encourage them and be a part of their family and them be a part of our family. ~ Cheryl Murff

Choose God's Will Regardless...

No healthy Christian ever chooses suffering; he chooses God's will, as Jesus did, whether it means suffering or not. ~ Oswald Chambers

Word of God Is Alive...

"Does God's word ever cause your discomfort? When you read the Bible, does what you read make you uneasy? Do you find, when you listen to sermons, that the Scripture seems aimed directly at you? You are experiencing the reality that the Word of God is alive and can read your thoughts and judge your intentions." ~ Henry Blackaby

Committed to Him

"Only what we let go in committal to Him becomes in fact really ours." ~ Watchman Nee

What Do We Long For?

"What is it we truly long for? A building full of people, or a people full of God?" ~ Brother Yun

Think You Can...

“If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can’t, you’re right.” ~ Henry Ford

What Matters?

"One day in eternity, many will look back with astonishment. They will see how much effort went into things which do not last and how little went into things that do not die. And there will be gnashing of teeth." ~ Chris Tiegreen

The Greater Danger...

“The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.” ~ Michelangelo

Worship in His Presence

"The first thing that wise people do in the presence of Jesus is worship: not congratulate themselves on having found Him, not ask Him questions, not attempt to get something from Him, but offer up themselves to Him." ~ Eugene Peterson

He Must Control...

Christ cannot save the one He cannot control. To claim to be saved while ignoring His commandments is to live in utter delusion. ~ A.W. Tozer

In His Hands

"When we put something or someone into His hands and then doubt and worry, He asks, 'Would you like to place them somewhere else?' " ~ James Robison

Integral to Social Justice - Family

The family is an integral part of social justice because it's the starting point of social justice. ~ Rudy Carrasco

Quality of Life

"The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chose field of endeavor." ~ Vince Lombardi

C.S. Lewis on Church's and Hymns

"When I first became a Christian, about fourteen years ago, I thought that I could do it on my own, by retiring to my rooms and reading theology, and I wouldn’t go to the churches and Gospel Halls; . . . I disliked very much their hymns, which I considered to be fifth-rate poems set to sixth-rate music. But as I went on I saw the great merit of it. I came up against different people of quite different outlooks and different education, and then gradually my conceit just began peeling off. I realized that the hymns (which were just sixth-rate music) were, nevertheless, being sung with devotion and benefit by an old saint in elastic-side boots in the opposite pew, and then you realize that you aren’t fit to clean those boots. It gets you out of your solitary conceit." ~ C.S. Lewis

Love Endures

"Love that needs peace to grow in is not biblical love. Love that exists in the interaction between persons must be of the calibre that not only endures the conflict between free and self-conscious persons but which thrives in such interchange." ~ Mildred Bangs Wynkoop

Deepest Desire

"What is our deepest desire and what is it we feel we lack and that having would make us complete? It is here we are most vulnerable to the enemy." ~ Beth Moore

Releasing the Power...

"Fasting, when coupled with prayer, releases God's power into our lives." ~ John Lindell

Why God Prospers Us...

"God does not prosper a man's business so that he can move from a Ford to a Cadillac. God prospers a business so that 17,000 unreached people can be reached with the gospel." ~ John Piper

Leadership Is...

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy. ~ Norman Schwarzkopf

The Way You Get a Testimony...

The way you get a TESTIMONY is by passing the TEST. no test. no testimony. the harder the test, the greater the testimony! ~ Mark Batterson

Revival of Holiness

“I continue to dream and pray about a revival of holiness in our day that moves forth in mission and creates authentic community in which each person can be unleashed through the empowerment of the Spirit to fulfill God's creational intentions.” ~ John Wesley

Where Did Jesus See It?

It no longer 'What would Jesus do?' What we've missed is 'Where did Jesus do it?' ~ Ken Scrubbs

He Is...

"God is not who you think He is; He is who He says He is." ~ Clarice Fluitt

Person of Prayer

"No person can do a great and enduring work for God who is not a person of prayer, and no person can be a person of prayer who does not give much time to praying." ~ E.M. Bounds

You Have the Cure

“If you had the cure to cancer wouldn’t you share it? … You have the cure to death … get out there and share it.” ~ Kirk Cameron

No Compromise

"They may look small and insignificant, but mind what I say, resist them - make no compromise, let no sin lodge quietly and undisturbed in your heart." ~ J.C. Ryle

Which Is Most Important?

"What is it we truly long for? A building full of people, or a people full of God?" ~ Brother Yun

What's Required

It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required." ~ Winston Churchill

An Offering in His Presence

"The first thing that wise people do in the presence of Jesus is worship: not congratulate themselves on having found Him, not ask Him questions, not attempt to get something from Him, but offer up themselves to Him." ~ Eugene Peterson

Does He Have Control?

Christ cannot save the one He cannot control. To claim to be saved while ignoring His commandments is to live in utter delusion. ~ A.W. Tozer

Purpose of Ministry

Every ministry we have is for the purpose of meeting the total needs of the individual. ~ Charles Roesel

A Leader If...

"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more; you are a leader." ~ John Adams

The Storm...

"Sometimes God calms the storm...sometimes He lets the storm rage and calms the child." ~ Unknown