54 quotes found
“I experience transcendence when something infinite reminds me I am finite.”
“A continual diet of the Word satisfies, and it builds an appetite for more.”
“A soul that is happy in the things of God can overcome tremendous obstacles.”
“One of the most frequent sins of omission is the failure to get adequate rest.”
“A rebellion against God, even as believers, is fueled by the toxic fumes of unbelief.”
“At the end of life, each of us must answer the question, Whose story captured my soul?”
“When we pray, we are speaking to the One Whose eternal purpose and designs are unfolding as our present realities. In order to find hope in them, we must seek HIM and HIS perspective. This requires...”
“Ed Welch says that all counseling is a variation on a single theme: knowing and praying for the counselee. Of all the questions the counselor might ask, then, the central guiding question in the co...”
“The biblical counselor must always remember that the ROOT problem is deeper than skin; it is sin. The ultimate cure is not culture, but Christ.”
“While the United States is becoming the most culturally diverse nation in the world, less than 5.5% of Christian congregations are multiethnic.”
“Who we are is not a question we can ask without seeking to understand the context in which we live. Biblical counselors seek to understand the influences that shape the responses of the human heart.”
“Most of the church landscape in my lifetime has been heavily invested in trying to do something for Jerry or Sherri or some other icon of unchurchness. The problem is that they have been only about...”
“What you hope for determines what you live for. What you hope for determines WHO you live for. Hope misplaced can devastate you.”
“Pride rises above and against the knowledge of God, acting as if He is unworthy to be retained in our thoughts.”
“We must rip the foundations out from under all the bastions of human reasoning that say, "I don't need God!" We must demolish every non-God story of life. We must pulverize every God-is-not-good li...”
“In counseling, we don't simply help people to change one thought; we help people to understand the pattern of their thinking their mindsets.”
“The marquee scrolling across our minds trying to reinterpret life reads: "God-Against-Us." This becomes the dominant lens through which our flesh interprets life. We no longer give our loving Fathe...”
“If we are to use the Bible effectively, then we must use it the way God wrote it in narrative form. Our team rejects the notion that the Bible is simply an encyclopedia of disconnected Bible verse...”
“All the stories and poems and letters and oracles and wisdom verses of God's Word, like individual instruments in a great orchestra, serve THE WHOLE story.”
“God's Word is especially suited to directing those who want to focus primarily on the nature and direction of their own hearts.”
“Let God Himself be the main attraction at church again, and let us be tireless in our insistence that church is for God, about God, through God, and to the glory of His great Son.”
“The entity God created to traffic His transcendence has fallen far from its mission when it chooses instead to traffic what can be found on any street corner or at the local mall. You may ask, "But...”
“Church leaders raised on rationalism lead ministries where the supernatural, the Vertical, is suppressed and where God Himself is at best an observer and certainly seldom, if ever, and obvious part...”
“In a society where rationality has ruled so long, the church frequently fails to see that in forsaking the weekly pursuit of the transcendent, we have given up the only ground that was uniquely our...”
“When we shift from personal purity to personal happiness, we lose biblical hope because we are not focusing on God's agenda, we are focusing on our own. God's agenda is guaranteed on our agenda is ...”
