When the church is silent on issues that the culture is screaming about, then a whole generation only hears one worldview. The church must speak up, disciple up, and train up a generation to navigate through culture issues with truth and love. Shane Pruitt
Lives Expendable?
Missionaries constantly face expendability. And people who do not know the Lord ask why in the world we waste our lives as missionaries. They forget that they too are expending their lives. They forget that when their lives are spent and the bubble has burst they will have nothing of eternal significance to show…
Harry S Truman
Never kick a fresh turd on a hot day. Everybody has the right to express what he thinks. That, of course, lets the crackpots in. But if you cannot tell a crackpot when you see one, then you ought to be taken in.
General Erwin Rommel
Don’t fight a battle if you don’t gain anything by winning. I would rather be the hammer than the anvil
General George S. Patton Jr.
“”It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died, Rather we should thank God that such men lived.” If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking. Do not try to make circumstances fit your plans. Make plans that fit the circumstances. Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to…
The Depths of the Soul
Too often, people who take the spiritual life seriously may waste all their efforts on the scaffolding, making it more and more solid, permanent and secure, and paying no attention to the building itself. They do so out of a kind of unconscious fear of the real responsibilities of the Christian life, which are…
Spirituality
Spirituality is not a formula; it is not a test. It is a relationship. Spirituality is not about competency; it is about intimacy. Spirituality is not about perfection; it is about connection. The way of the spiritual life begins where we are now in the mess of our lives. Accepting the reality of…
Dr Seuss on Direction/Going Places
You have brains in your head You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose… Oh, the places you’ll go!… Except when you don’t. Because, sometimes, you won’t.
Justice
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” Martin Luther King quoted in John Perkins Book Dream with Me
On Being Weak
Father, let me be weak that I might loose my clutch on everything temporal. My life, my reputation, my possessions, Lord, let me loose the tension of the grasping hand… Rather, open my hand to receive the nail of Calvary, as Christ’s was opened–that I, releasing all, might be released, unleashed from all that binds…
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