Easter Is Not...

Let’s get it straight that Easter is not just the remembrance of something that happened in the past. It is the good news that the risen Savior is alive and is on the road ahead of us. We will not find him in the tomb of our broken dreams and shattered expectations, in the graveyard of defeats and failures, embalmed in some experience in the past. We will find him out ahead of us on the road that leads to a radically new tomorrow. ~ Jim Harnish

Everlasting Preoccupation

We are called to an everlasting preoccupation with God.

~ A.W. Tozer

He Lives...

We live and die: Christ died and lived! ~ John Stott

Need for a Savior...

It has been the cross which has revealed to good men that their goodness has not been good enough. ~ Johann Hieronymus Schroder

...to Perfect You...

God is not out to get you, but He is out to perfect you. ~ Mark Buchanan

Pours Through Us...

If we believe in Jesus, it is not what we gain, but what He pours through us that counts.....Spiritually, we cannot measure our life by success, but only by what God pours through us, and we cannot measure that at all. ~ Oswald Chambers

Want from a Church...

What we think we want from a church is almost never what we need.

~ Brett McCracken

Am I?

Am I really what I ought to be? Am I what, in the bottom of my heart, I honestly wish to be? Am I living a life at all like what I myself approve? My secret nature, the true complexion of my character, is hidden from all men, and only I know it. Is it such as I should be willing to show? Is my soul at all like what my kindest and most intimate friends believe? Is my heart at all such as I should wish the Searcher of Hearts to judge me by? Is every year adding to my devotion, to my unselfishness, to my conscientiousness, to my freedom from the hypocrisy of seeming so much better than I am? When I compare myself with last year, am I more ready to surrender myself at the call of duty? am I more alive to the commands of conscience? have I shaken off my besetting sins?" These are the questions which this season of Lent ought to find us putting fairly and honestly to our hearts. ~ Frederick Temple

Grace...

Receiving grace for my failures also includes Christ's help to turn from sin and embrace new obedience.

~ Megan Hill

Faithfulness...

Faithfulness in a little thing is a big thing. 

~ John Chrysostom

Not Worthless...

The devil has convinced so many people that they are worthless. Each of us needs to stop and remember the cross—at the cross we will discover our true value— for it is here that we discover the price God was willing to pay for us, the depth of His love, and how much we are worth to Him. 

~ Roy Lessin

Effected by Prayer...

Everything is affected by prayer. Not just any kind of prayer. It must be prayer that says, 'You're God over this.' ~ Beth Moore

Our Problems

Sometimes God delivers us from our problems; sometimes God delivers us through our problems. ~ Mark Batterson

His Presence...

Manifestations will never satisfy. God gave manna in order to show them their need for something more; His Presence. ~ John Bevere

Give...

If we give more of ourselves to God, God will give more of Himself to us. ~ Mark Batterson

Effective Church Planters...

We can't be effective church planters if we are apathetic about our own holiness. ~ Brett McCracken

Nothing Is too Small

God is great not just because nothing is too big for Him; God is also great because nothing is too small. 

~ Mark Batterson

Ash Wednesday...

Remember that lent and ash Wednesday is not just about putting away the bad things. It is about creating good things and helping the poor and the needy, being kind to people and much more.

~ Jacob Winters

Regular Prayer

If you pray to God regularly, irregular things will happen on a regular basis. ~ Mark Batterson

Love Is...

Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.

~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Opposite of Love...

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. 
~ Elie Wiesel

Sub-Culture or Counter-Culture?

Is the Church a sub-culture of the world or a counter-culture to it?

~ John Bevere

Love...

No love of the natural heart is safe unless the human heart has first been satisfied by God. 

~ Oswald Chambers

Infinite...

With an infinite God of infinite wealth, hope never ends in disappointment.

~ Chris Tiegreen

HIS Promises...

Expect God to fulfill His promises but don't make the mistake of forming expectations for how He'll do it.

~ Chris Tiegreen

The Remedy

Looking at the wound of sin will never save anyone. You must instead look at the remedy.

~ D.L. Moody

Trust...

It is not our trust that keeps us, but the God in Whom we trust who keeps us.

~ Oswald Chambers

Trust HIM in Full

We cannot trust God in full if we only believe He loves us in part.

~ Alicia Britt Chole

Culture...

Christianity that reflects its culture only lasts as long as it's useful to its host.

~ Brett McCracken

Together...

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. ~ Helen Keller

A Box...

I'm a man seeking a box, serving a God who constantly proves that He doesn't fit in one.

~ Tim Walker

Prepare...

It ought to be our business every day to prepare for our last day.

~ Matthew Henry

Encouragement

Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.

~ George Adams

Overflow...

Jesus desires our witness of Him to be the directed overflow of nearness to Him.

~  Alicia Britt Chole