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"When we advertise the gospel in terms of
the world's values, we lie to people. We lie to them, because
this is new life. It involves following Jesus. It
involves the Cross. It involves death, an acceptable
sacrifice. We give up our lives...It's learning how to
die. And as you learn how to die, you start losing all your
illusions, and you start being capable now of true intimacy and love."
Eugene Peterson, in Christianity Today
Interview March, 2005 |
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"When You FACE UP to God's Glory, You Find
Yourself FACEDOWN in Worship."
Matt Redman, Worship Leader in "Face Down" |
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"God delights in seeing us share our time,
money, and resources for no reason other than the joy of giving.
When our motives are pure, then giving is not only easy, it's
downright fun."
Liz Curtis Higgs, Author and Inspirational Speaker |
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"In some sense the most benevolent,
generous person in the world seeks his own happiness in doing good to
others, because he places his happiness in their good."
Jonathan Edwards, 18th Century Theologian and Reformer |
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"God is no fonder of intellectual slackers
than of any other slackers. If you are thinking of becoming a
Christian, I warn you that you are embarking on something which is
going to take the whole of you, brains and all. But
unfortunately, it works the other way around. Anyone who is
honestly trying to be a Christian will soon find his intelligence is
being sharpened: one of the reasons why it needs no special education
to be a Christian is that Christianity is an education itself."
C.S. Lewis, Theologian |
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"The world sets the agenda for the
professional man; God sets the agenda of the spiritual man."
John Piper, "Brothers We Are Not Professionals" |
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"Sin is not a product of our haves and
have nots. It is a product of the heart."
Beth Moore, Author |
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"My own weaknesses makes me shrink, but
God's promises make me brave."
Charles Haddon Spurgeon, "Beside Still Waters" |
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"If you are a Christian , you are in the
same circumstance as the early followers of Jesus. You have
been commissioned to manage an asset for your Master. Your
asset is your life-the sum of your talents, strengths, personality
and interests. [Live every day to answer the question]. How
will I steward what my Master has placed in my care?"
Bruce Wilkinson, "A Life God Rewards" |
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"There's nothing you can do, to make God
love you more...and there's nothing you can do, to make God love you less"
Rich Mullins |
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"Sermon's come from the soul. Thus,
to deliver a sermon is to reveal our innermost parts in front of the
entire congregation. By the time preachers get to the pulpit,
the text has already beaten us up, and consoled and renewed us in the
grace of God. So when we look out and say, 'Hear the Word of
the Lord,' we really believe it has the power to change lives.
Then after delivering this sacred message, we stand at the door
smiling, with our souls still hanging out. " M Craig
Barnes, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary |
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"Here I am in the twilight years of my
life, still wondering what it's all about. I can tell you this:
fame and fortune is for the birds." Legendary
carmaker, Lee Iacocca quoted by Os Guiness |
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"In many congregations the only role that
members can aspire to is to be a good follower. In the first-century
church, there were no other churches to take leaders
from. Everybody had to be homegrown." Erwin McManus |
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"The incarnation of Jesus Christ is God's
undeniable evidence that relevance to culture is not
optional." Erwin McManus |
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"If Christ's honor is our
passion, the pursuit of pleasure in Him is our duty."
John Piper |
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"We thought the way up is
up. But with God, the way up is down."
-Wellington Boone |
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"Jesus did not die at the
hands of muggers, rapists, or thugs. He fell into the
well-scrubbed hands of deeply religious people, society's most
respected members." -Brennan Manning |
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"Neither is repentance a
one-time act. It is a lifestyle, an ongoing commitment to keep
putting aside our rebellion and receive God's
forgiveness." -Bruce Wilkinson |
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"The church was Jesus'
idea, not man's." -Paul E. Little |
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"All religious and
political systems, Right and Left alike, are the work of human
beings. Abba's children will not sell their birthright for any
mess of pottage, conservative or liberal. They hold fast to
their freedom in Christ to live the gospel-uncontaminated by cultural
dreck, political flotsam, and the filigreed hypocrisies of bullying
religion." -Brennan Manning, Abba's Child |
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"It has taken me thirty
years to understand that the admission and forgiveness of sin is the
essence of the New Testament." -Sebastian Moore |
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"The reason we never enter
into the deepest reality of our relationship with God is that we so
seldom acknowledge our utter nothingness before him."
-Thomas Merton |
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"Life is a team-oriented
experience. Though you rarely think of it, there are thousands
of people who work to make your day easier&ldots;You may feel like a
lone wolf, but like everyone else, you are dependent on someone.
Never lose sight of that." -Coach Lou Holtz |
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"He is eternal. He
antedates time and is wholly independent of it. Time began in
Him and will end in Him. To it He pays no tribute and from it
He suffers no change." A.W. Tozer |
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Listen to the MUSTN'TS, child,
Listen to the DON'TS
Listen to the SHOULDN'TS
The IMPOSSIBLES, the WON'TS
Listen to the NEVER HAVES
Then listen close to me-
Anything can happen, child,
ANYTHING can be.
-Shel Silverstein
"I can do everything
through him who gives me strength." Phil. 4:13 |
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"We must of necessity be
servant to someone, either to God or to sin." A.W. Tozer |
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"We must of necessity be
servant to someone, either to God or to sin." A.W. Tozer
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"We were put here for
love. There isn't any theological dispute about it---love is
the goal of the Christian life." Richard Swenson, M.D. |
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"While incarcerated
prisoners make twenty decisions a day, those of us walking the
streets make on hundred and twenty decisions a day."
Prison Fellowship |
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"Passivity is not a valid
response. We must become active agents, forging the kind of
response that is spiritually and relationally
authentic." Richard Swenson, M.D. |
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"Let's quit fiddling with
religion and do something to bring the world to Christ."
Billy Sunday |
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"If a team is to
reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his
personal goals to the good of the team." Coach Bud Wilkinson |
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"You cannot please
everyone. You cannot please anyone all the time. You can
please God." Dan Southerland |
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"No life of faith can be
lived privately. There must be overflow into the lives of
others." Eugene Peterson |
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"I color outside the
lines." Hank Ketcham's -Dennis the Menace |
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"It doesn't matter what
size church you serve. I have been in every size and location
and the joy has always come simply from seeing the hand of God move
in people's lives. That's what makes my life so full! God
is good." Mike Breaux- Pastor of the 9,000 members,
Southland Christian Church, Lexington, KY |
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"If we want to become
spiritual friends to them [non-churchgoers], we need to start by not
expecting them to conform to our vocabulary. As Christians we
live out a message about a man who came to us on our terms, spoke our
language and cross the bridge to meet us where we
were." Author & Pastor, Brian McLaren |
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"Nobodies change the
world. The Somebodies in Places of Power tend to exercise their
power to maintain the status quo or to improve the status
quo. But when it's time to move from status quo to terra
nova, that's usually the job of Nobodies from the powerless
places at the margins. Think of Moses, Esther, Nehemiah, Jesus,
Paul...." The character Neo in Brian McLaren's book,
"A New Kind of Christian" |
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"May God deliver us from
self-righteous judging and make us, instead, merciful carriers of
Christ's salvation and freedom everywhere we go."
Jim Cymbala |
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"I believe that the one
problem underlying all others is that we have moved both pastors and
churches from a community model to a corporation
model." Pastor and Author, E. Glenn Wagner |
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"The point of walking with
God is not to arrive, but to walk with God." M.
Craig Barnes |
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"Communion with God is a
relationship, not a sensation." Bruce Wilkinson |
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"The greatest enemy of
Christianity may be people who say they believe in Jesus but who are
no longer astonished and amazed." Mike Yaconelli,
Dangerous Wonder |
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"The places that used to
fit me cannot hold the things I've learned." Sarah
Groves, Painting Pictures of Egypt |
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"What we are seeking is
excellence, not perfection. Perfection is for our own
self-gratification, excellence is for the glory of
God." Olan Hendrix |
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"There is an old saying
that the things that got you to where you are today are not the
things that will you get you where you need to be tomorrow...In this
era of rapid and profound change, we know that the shape of the
church must change significantly if it's to remain both alive and
influential....We must be prepared to re-engineer the contours of
ministry without compromising its content."
Researcher and Author George Barna |
