discipleship

You can either be god of certain areas of your life, or let Me be God of your whole life.

There is nothing stereotyped about God's dealings with His children. Therefore, we must not by our prejudices and preconceptions make watertight compartments for the working out His Spirit, either in our own lives or in the lives of others. We must leave God free to work as He wills and to leave what evidence He pleases of the work He does.

I was determined to get them away from the idea that their education is a private experience.

Jesus enters the garden, in preparation, intending to face his fears by facing his God, his Father, His greatest fear is to offend his Father, to disobey his own calling, its integrity, and the word of God on his life.

The Must be worthless by our estimation or keep us enslaved by an intemperate love of it.

When I was 25, I believed I could change the world. At 41, I have come to the realization that I cannot change my wife, my church, or my kids, to say nothing of the world. Try as I might, I have not been able to manufacture outcomes the way I thought I could, either in my own life or other people__.

Today we must begin again. Step by small step, without any more protection than comes from our own bodies.

In every historical period, the religious groups that grow most rapidly are those that set believers at odds with the surrounding culture.

Yanked out of the present, Adam discovered the richness of the past in people's stories.

Let not him who accepts light in an instant despise him who gropes months in shadows.

An animal will conquer others. A Spirit-filled man conquers himself _ self-discipline, self-control.

God's word tells us that righteousness is a gift; it cannot be earned. But godliness is not a gift. We must pay a price to touch godliness through a daily decision to die to self and embrace the cross. God calls us to learn godliness in the classroom of life among people as we sit on airplanes and buses, walk among our neighbors and labor at our factories or desks.

The one single use of things which we call our own is that they might be his who hath need of them.

The sweet spot is where duty and delight converge.

There was no keenness in the eyes; they seemed rather to be shedding love than making observations; they had the liquid look which tells that the mind is full of what it has to give out, rather than impressed by external objects.

If we know our original blessing, we can easily handle our original sin. If we rest in a previous dignity, we can bear insults effortlessly. If you really know your name is on some eternal list, you can let go of the irritations on the small lists of time. Ultimate security allows you to suffer small insecurity without tremendous effort. If you are tethered at some center point, it is amazing how far out you can fly and not get lost.

His Kingship, precisely because it is so broad, so total, is doomed to be rejected by anybody who is still into tribalism, or small belonging systems. We don't really like the big Kingdom if it gets in the way of our smaller kingdoms, and it always does.

Deal mildly with his youth; for young hot colts, being rag's, do rage the more.