Urgent Need...

Heartache forces us to embrace God out of desperate, urgent need. God is never closer than when your heart is aching. ~ Joni Eareckson Tada

HE Weeps...

God holds back; He hides Himself; He weeps. Why? Because He desires what power can never win. He is a King who wants no subservience, but love. ~ Philip Yancey 

Want Vs. Need

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

~ Brett McCracken

The Church...

The Church of the Lord Jesus Christ will not go under, for He is the foundation of the Church. It belongs to Him. And, the Lord of the Church is still in the Church. The Church is not in Crisis, the Church is in Christ. ~ Nina Gunter

Calvary Love...

If I am soft to myself and slide comfortably into self-pity and self-sympathy, if I do not by the grace of God practice fortitude, then I know nothing of Calvary love. If I myself dominate myself, if my thoughts revolve round myself, if I am so occupied with myself I rarely have “a heart at leisure from itself,” then I know nothing of Calvary love.…That which I know not, teach Thou me, O Lord, my God.     — Amy Carmichael

Interruptions Come...

Interruptions come in different ways and in different forms: losing your job, being falsely accused, having what belongs to you taken. When God stops the progress of your own plans, He is often up to something. God may interrupt your life in the form of a tragedy, a broken heart, or a strong conviction that's hard to shake. These interruptions should not be taken lightly. God has a plan that is guaranteed to be better on the other side of the interruption. 
~ Tiffany Smiling 

Faith Is...

Faith is a footbridge that  you don't know will hold you up over the chasm until you're forced to walk out onto it. ~ Nicholas Wolterstorff

The Bridge...

He who cannot forgive others destroys the bridge over which he himself must pass. ~ George Herbert

Second Chance Grace...

We cringe at the extension of grace to the perpetrator until we become the perpetrator. Then, like David, we also find ourselves hoping for a second chance. ~ Laurie Short 

You Have a Calling...

We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings. ~ Abraham Maslow

Election Advice from 1774

I met those of our society who had votes in the ensuring election, and advised them, 1. To vote, without fee or reward, for the person they judged most worthy: 2. To speak no evil of the person they voted against: And, 3. To take care their spirits were not sharpened against those that voted on the other side. ~ John Wesley, October 6, 1774

Weak Things...

“But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong.” ‭‭1 Corinthians‬ ‭1:27‬ ‭NIV‬‬

Length and Width...

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. 
~ Diane Ackerman

To Love...

What a grand thing is it so be loved! 
What a far grander thing it is to love!
~ Victor Hugo