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God is kind, but he is not soft. He takes us firmly by the hand and leads us into a radical life change.

He saw you in your own Gethsemane and He didn't want you to be alone..He would rather go to hell for you than to haven without you.

Being religious without knowing the cross is like owning a Mercedes with no motor. Pretty package, but where is your power?

Are you weary? Catch your breath. Are you strong? Reserve passing judgment on the tired.

When Jesus says he will keep you safe, he means it. Hell will have to get through him to get to you.

The next time you are called to suffer, pay attention. It may be the closest you'll ever get to God.

2Enthusiasm without knowledge is not good. If you act too quickly, you might make a mistake.

What makes a Christian a Christian is not perfection but forgiveness.

What you think of Jesus Christ Will thoroughly color how you think about everything else.

My thinking is that miracles exist to reveal God, but miracles don't exist for God to do me any favors.

Accept teaching from his mouth, and keep his words in your heart. [ Job 22:22 NCV ]

Christ lived the life we could not live and took the punishment we could not take to offer the hope we cannot resist.

To accept God's grace is to accept God's offer to be adopted into his family.

If God is enough for you, then you'll always have enough, because you'll always have God.

Don't you think God can work however he chooses?" "I believe God worked, and the rest is up to us.

Who are they to give stars or dots? They're Wemmicks just like you.
Eli to Punchinello (p. 25)

Want to learn to forgive? Then consider how you've been forgiven.

God is using my struggle. My struggle is the answer to the prayer.

Let your failures refine you, not define you.

Da Vinci painted one Mona Lisa. Beethoven composed one Fifth Symphony. And God made one version of you.

I don't believe our works save us, but I believe they follow us into heaven and bring glory to God.

God never promises to remove us from our struggles. He does promise, however, to change the way we look at them.

One phrase summarizes the horror of hell. "God isn't there."

Identity: smack-dab in the middle ... Neither omnipotent nor impotent. Neither God's MVP nor God's mistake.

Whether or not storms come, we can not choose. But where we stare during a storm, that we can.

In the great orchestra we call life, you have an instrument and a song, and you owe it to God to play them both sublimely.

When you're full of yourself, God can't fill you. But when you empty yourself, God has a useful vessel.

Feed your fears and your faith will starve. Feed your faith, and your fears will.

The lack of God-centeredness leads to self-centeredness.

There are certain things no one can do for you.

When grace moves in... guilt moves out

Sometimes God takes his time:

If God were only mighty, we would Salute Him. But since he is Merciful and Mighty, we can approach Him.

Don't measure the size of the mountain; talk to the One who can move it.

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.

Bitterness is the trap that snares the hunter

There's an antidote to our fears- trust. If we trust God more,we can fear less.

Jesus gives us hope because He keeps us company, has a vision and knows the way we should go.

Life pulls us down.

The presence of fear does not mean you have no faith. Fear visits everyone. But make your fear a visitor and not a resident.

Faith is the bird that sings while it is yet dark.

God loves us too much to indulge our every whim.

isn't it true? What you don't have is much less than what you do. from A Love Worth Giving

And that he, who can dig the Grand Canyon with his pinkie, thinks you're worth his death on Roman timber. Christ is the reward of Christianity.

God forgets the past ... Imitate Him..

Stay strong! Your test will become your test-imony, your mess will become your mess-age.

God does not exist to make a big deal out of us. We exist to make a big deal out of him. It's not about you. It's not about me. It's all about him.

God is not a miser with his grace. Your cup may be low in cash or clout, but it is overflowing with mercy.

Fear will always knock on your door. Just don't invite it in for dinner. And for heaven's sake, don't offer it a bed for the night.

Never let the church become a place where it's just a Las Vegas display place for you to show off.

Faith is the conviction that God knows more than we do about this life and he will get us through it. Our

Those who try to keep their lives will lose them. But those who give up their lives will save them. LUKE 17:33

We just need the government to be that greenhouse that permits our faith to grow.

Baptism is the initial step of a faithful heart.

Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life. And I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever. PSALM 23:6 NKJV

You'll regret opening your mouth. You'll rarely regret keeping it shut.

The secret of loving is living loved.

Answer the big question of eternity, and the little questions of life fall into perspective.

Pits have no easy exits.

It does little good to make the trip and miss the journey!

Seek beauty and miss love.
But seek love and find both.

Saturate your day in His grace.
Entrust your day to His oversight.
Accept His direction.
Grace, Oversight, Direction
G-O-D

With God, every day matters, every person counts. And that includes you.

Ponder this the next time your world goes from calm to chaos ... . Jesus knows how you feel.

It's God's job to run the world. Sometimes we accomplish more by doing less.

I don't have any desire to retire in the sense of not doing anything. As long as the Lord gives me strength I want to keep writing and keep preaching.

You see, it's one thing to accept Him as Lord, another to recognize Him as Savior - but it's another matter entirely to accept Him as Father.

The world and all its wanting, wanting, wanting is on the way out - but whoever does what God wants is set for eternity. [ 1 John 2:17 MSG

The One who saved your soul longs to remake your heart. Let's fix our eyes on Jesus. Perhaps in seeing Him, we will see what we can become!

When we see death, we see disaster. When Jesus sees death, he sees deliverance!

Let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. ROMANS 12:2 NLT

God does not relish our sufferings, but He delights in our development.

God's mercies are new every morning. Receive them.

The greater your cares, the more genuine your prayers

When you have God, you always have hope.

But for me, I am anot afraid, because the worst thing that could happen is getting to see "my Father eye to eye.

Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. To these I commit my day.

Our task is not to whitewash nor bloat the truth. Our task is to tell the truth. Period.

Can you imagine a life with no fear? What if faith, not fear, was your default reaction to threats?

There is no one God won't use.

You are who God says you are. Spiritually alive. Heavenly positioned. Connected to the Father. A billboard of mercy. An honored child.

On the eve of the cross, Jesus made his decision. He would rather go to hell for you than go to heaven without you.

Though you see nothing, he is acting.

It is only when we let go of life as we know it that we discover true life - the glorious plan laid out by God.

Sometimes God allows what he hates to accomplish what he loves.

Sentences are like just caught fish. Spunky today, stinky tomorrow.

The Bible urges us to be respectful to all people, especially people with whom we have disagreements, to never libel people, to never label people.

God is always near us. Always for us. Always in us. We may forget him, but God will never forget us.

Pieces don't fit. Wine runs out. Water bottles burst. These are facts of life. But Jesus responds with this invitation: "Bring your problems to me.

Apple trees bear apples, wheat stalks produce wheat, and forgiven people forgive people.

A Christian in his surroundings should encourage everyone to be better, instead of being the one who stoops to be like everyone else.

The life of Jesus Christ is a message of hope, a message of mercy, a message of life in a dark world.

God's glory is the big news of the Bible, and my desire is that it would be all about me, but really it's all about God's glory.

God has no cousins, only children.

Regardless of the circumstances that surrounded your arrival, you are not an accident. God planned you before you were born.

The meaning of life. The wasted years of life. The poor choices of life. God answers the mess of life with one word: 'grace.'

God grants us an uncommon life to the degree we surrender our common one.

When no one is watching, live as if someone is.

You are never more like Jesus than when you pray for others. Pray for this hurting world.

Come aside by yourselves to a deserted place and rest a while.