God's Will...

Friend of God...

Benefits of Giving

I have found that among its other benefits giving liberates the soul of the giver. ~ Maya Angelou

Everything Matters...

Family...

Forgiveness

A Safe Place...

The church should be a safe place free of sexism, racism, cronyism, nepotism, and any "ism" that separates people. ~ C. Hosher

Giver...

Gratitude Unlocks...

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.~ Melody Beattie

Kingdom Values...

Religion requires perfection, but the kingdom values excellence. If we strive for perfection and don’t allow ourselves room to be wrong, we will never grow. Perfection is an unattainable destination, but excellence is an exciting journey. It’s a journey in which we allow the Holy Spirit to teach, guide, and mentor us. If you strive to never make a mistake, you will make the biggest one by never stepping out in faith. ~ Bob Hazlett, The Roar: God's Sound In A Raging World

Heartache...

God Interrupts...

When God interrupts our lives with His dream, it can be hard for us to want to step forward to embrace that calling because we see the sacrifice instead of the reward. ~ Tiffany Smiling

You Are A Winner

Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.  ~ Arthur Ashe

Thanksgiving...

Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

~ Henry Ward Beecher

Serve Others

How Far You Go...

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. —George Washington Carver

Unrealized Blessings

Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now. ~ A.W. Tozer

When No One Is Looking...

We all can ‘act’ a certain way for a brief period of time, for instance, on Thanksgiving, who of us hasn’t had to ‘act’ like we just loved everyone at the table? This brief show of good behavior is not true character. Our character is who we are when no one is looking.~ Becky Van Volkinburg

Keep Moving...

Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. ~ Will Rogers

Not So Different

We're not so different. We all bleed, hurt, laugh, hope, smile, cry, and love. Our similarities far outnumber our differences. 

~ J. Selvidge

Practice Being Grateful

Once you start practicing being grateful and thankful for things, people, and events, you may notice that you start to attract more positive things, people, and events in your life.~ Stephanie Conkle

Nothing Is Impossible...

Nothing is impossible for the People of God who trust in the power of God to accomplish the will of God. ~ David Platt 

Conscious of Our Treasures...

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.~ Thornton Wilder

Relationship with God...

God is still real and moving, but at some point we have to respond and act because of what He’s done. Like yeast and flour are both necessary to bread, both God’s actions and our response-action are necessary in this relationship with God. 

~ Francis Chan

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action. ~ W.J. Cameron

As We Truly Are...

To see ourselves as we truly are—a wisp of love itself—is perhaps our deepest fear. But it is also our greatest grace. If we are to be the new human, we must begin by embracing love, which always seeks to incarnate itself. Love is enfleshed everywhere. Everywhere the Holy One is shouting and whispering, ‘Let me love you.’ And all that is asked of us is to receive. In reality, that is our life’s work. Nothing more, and certainly nothing less. ~ Judy Cannato

Try Thankfulness

If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily.~ Gerald Good

An Offense...

The gospel will always cause offense because it shows us having a need we cannot meet. ~ Timothy Keller

Thanksgiving...

The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving.~ H.U. Westermayer

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action. 

~ W.J. Cameron

Thanksgiving

Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.~ W.T. Purkiser

God of This Time...

Whatever era this turns out to be, remember that the God who invented time and the God who will end time will be the God of this time. 

—Aleshire

A Thankful Heart

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues. ~ Cicero

Change Lives...

Irresistible churches are champions at leading people closer to God, being conduits for the Holy Spirit to change lives for the better and impact society for good. ~ Wayne Cordeiro

Give...

You shouldn’t just give during Christmas and Thanksgiving you should be giving all the time.  
~ Alcurtis Turner

The Bible...

If I were the devil, one of my first aims would be to stop folk from digging into the Bible. ~ J.I. Packer

Thanksgiving...

On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I realize that, following the tragedies of this year, it is all too real a possibility that they might not have been.~ Bobby Jindal

At Your Wits' End?

When we are at our wits' end for an answer, then the Holy Spirit can give us an answer. But how can He give us an answer when we are still well supplied with all sorts of answers of our own. ~ Karl Barth

Thanksgiving...

Thanksgiving reminds us that no matter what befalls us in life, we can take the charred remnants and we can reconstruct a life unimaginably richer than that from which the shards and pieces fell.~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Nothing...

Nothing irredeemable has happened to us or can happen to us on our way to our destiny in God’s full world.  ~ Philip Yancey (The Question That Never Goes Away)…

Thanksgiving...

Thanksgiving Day is a good day to recommit our energies to giving thanks and just giving.~ Amy Grant

Church: Something We Are

We have turned church into someplace we go and not something that we are. ~ S. Daniels

Express Thanks...

The more we express thanks, the more gratitude we feel. The more gratitude we feel, the more we express thanks. It’s circular, and it leads to a happier life. ~ Steve Goodier

In Relationship...

The truth is, we can be in relationship with God and active in helping others for years without really understanding His ways or allowing Him to work through us in supernatural ways. ~ Bruce Wilkinson

Thankful...

When asked if my cup is half-full or half-empty my only response is that I am thankful I have a cup.~ Sam Lefkowitz

Successful Marriages...

The truth is, successful marriages depend more upon being the right person than they do on finding the right person.  ~ Buri

Gratitude...

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse. ~ Henry Van Dyke

What God Has Done...

It's the difference between your feeling good about what you've done to help others and others feeling astonished by what God has done for them through you. ~ Bruce Wilkinson

Resolved...

Resolved: That all people should live for the glory of God. Resolved: that whether others do or not, I will.  ~  Jonathan Edwards

Blessings...

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.– Charles Dickens

Thanksgiving...

Thanksgiving is the holiday of peace, the celebration of work and the simple life… a true folk-festival that speaks the poetry of the turn of the seasons, the beauty of seedtime and harvest, the ripe product of the year — and the deep, deep connection of all these things with God.~ Ray Stannard Baker

Waits...

Much of my life has been spent in waits that seemed to take too long. Until I look back and see what those waits produced. ~ Laurie Short

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving was never meant to be shut up in a single day.~ Robert Caspar Lintner

Ships...

A ship in the harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. 
~ John A. Shedd

You Are A Sign...

The man who says there are no 'signs' is himself a sign.

~ Vance Havner

Check Up...

While we extend the borders of our 'tent,' we had better check the center pole.

~ Vance Havner