February 2012
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Perspective
Sometimes you have to take a step back in order to really see the beauty of something. From the ledge of the Grand Canyon, Beauty shines bright as the sun. She wears a dress of granite and sky with sparkling shoes made of rushing river. Her eyes shine bright as the sunbeams shade the giant cliffs and valleys with color and shadow, revealing scope and texture. Her hair smells like...
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“Saints burn way more grace than sinners ever could.”
– Dallas Willard
January 2012
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“You want to know where God lives? He lives at the end of your rope.”
– Dallas Willard
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“If deliverance is all I desire for God for, when trouble disappears, my desire...”
– Louis Zamperini
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“Great comfort rarely brings great growth”
– John Ortberg
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“Trouble can reveal my character. Trouble can also be an opportunity for the...”
– John Ortberg
Nick Benoit: Joy →
nickbenoit:
Writing this was one of the things that helped me lay claim to Joy this season.
Through many ups and downs and questions and answers I came a little closer to understanding Joy as something that is permanent, inexhaustible, and steadfast, a new status that is Truth. Truth that is independent of…
Nick Benoit: Potential →
nickbenoit:
I recently started reading Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand. It’s a biography of an olympic runner and World War II survivor named Louis Zamperini.
(If you haven’t gotten a copy of this book yet, you really should. I haven’t traditionally turned to histories or biographies for my recreational…
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“I have had the experience over and over again that the quieter it is around me,...”
– Bonhoeffer’s final Christmas time letter to fiancee Maria von Wedemeyer, December 19, 1944
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At the Beginning of a New Year
The road to hell is paved with “good intentions.” This saying, which is found in a broad variety of lands, does not arise from the brash worldly wisdom of an incorrigible. It instead reveals deep Christian insight. At the beginning of a new year, many people have nothing better to do than to make a list of bad deeds and resolve from now on - how many such “from-now-ons”...
Circumstances
My faith and walk with God isn’t based on circumstances.
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New Year's Text
If we survive during the coming weeks or months, we shall be able to see quite clearly that all has turned out for the best. The idea that we could have avoided many of life’s difficulties if we had taken things more cautiously is too foolish to be entertained for a moment. As I look back on your past I am so convinced that what has happened hitherto has been right, that I feel that what...
December 2011
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Psalm 34:18
The LORD is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.
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Construction
Billy Graham’s wife, Ruth, passed away a couple years ago. And what she had chose to have engraved on her gravestone, had nothing to do with her remarkable achievements or accomplishment. It had to do with the fact that as long as we were alive, God will be working on us… and we wait.
She had been driving one day along a highway through a construction site. And there was miles of...
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WatchEnlarge Life
“Without dismissing the important role played by apostles or evangelists...”
– Scot McKnight
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The Blessedness of Possessing Nothing
Let us never forget that such a truth as this cannot be learned by rote as one would learn the facts of physical science. They must be experienced before we can really know them. We must in our hearts live through Abraham’s harsh and bitter experiences if we would know the blessedness which follows them. The ancient curse will not go out painlessly; the tough old miser within us will not...
“The Kingdom of God is Already and Not Yet here”
November 2011
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“I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I...”
– Romans 7:15
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“The vast majority on the teaching that Jesus does on hell is given to the...”
– Mike Erre
“The american church has been educated far beyond it’s willingness to obey.”
October 2011
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“It is not about the size of your faith… It is about the size of your God....”
– John Ortberg
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“Nothing kills patience like being solely focused on the object of your desire....”
– Lysa Terkeurst
“No one overcomes the corruptions of his heart except by the enabling strength of...”
– Jerry Bridges
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Watch
September 2011
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“Only if we believe with our whole being in the equality of the rich and poor...”
– Dallas Willard
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God Wants to Redeem You, Not Exchange You
John Ortberg writes “God wants to redeem you, NOT exchange you”.
When I first read those words, something in me awoke. As a person who struggles with narcissism, it was really hard for me to understand what it means to be comfortable being the way that I am, The way God has created me to be. Constantly wanting please people, be the certain person so that I can be liked by everyone. ...
“The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found...”
– G.K. Chesterton
“…there are Leaders and Those Who Lead. Leaders hold a position of power...”
– Simon Sinek
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“There is nothing we need to do to keep it up, because his love for us is not...”
– John Eldridge
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“You can’t get to wonderful without passing through alright. You...”
– Bill Withers
August 2011
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Watch10 Lessons from Steve Jobs
“If conversion makes no improvements in a man’s outward actions then I...”
– C.S. Lewis Daily
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By-Product
A good friend and I were sitting one morning having breakfast and we got to talking about our focal points, goals, dreams of our lives.
We got to realize that sometimes we get side tracked by the by-products of our dreams, rather than just recognizing them for what they are… they are by-products.
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“Playing it safe is the most popular way to fail.”
– Elliott Smith
“If Christianity is anything. It’s a call NOT to play it safe. It’s...”
– Tony Campolo
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“Is the life you’re inviting others into, the life you’re leading?”
– John Ortberg
“Pray like no one’s listening; serve like no one’s watching and give...”
– Bob Goff
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“Joy is not the absence of trouble, but the presence of God”
– Elizabeth Elliot
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When You Settle, You Die.
The pace of life is so fast. When I was at Urbana 06, (a global missions conference) Brenda Salter McNeil was talking about the story of Terah. For those who do not know who Terah is, the father of the father of many nations, Abraham, formally known as Abram. Brenda was explaining how Terah was called to leave Ur, to enter into the promise land of Canaan:
The Family...