“ If it’s not acceptable in heaven, it’s not acceptable here.
Delirious? (Isaiah 61)
corazón mío
“ What I spent, I had. What I saved, I lost. What I gave, I have.
Corrie Ten Boom (via Come&Live!)
reminder
“We must never put our dreams of success as God’s purpose for us. The question of getting to a particular end is a mere incident. What we call the process, God calls the end. His purpose is that I depend on Him and on His power now. It is the process, not the end, which is glorifying to God.”
-Oswald Chambers
“If I were to wish for anything I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of what can be, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating as possibility.”
-Soren Kierkegaard
“ Entre el ser y el hacer está el conocimiento de Dios.
on my very amazing uncle’s facebook this morning
[Between being and doing is the understanding/knowledge of God.]
[Between being and doing is the understanding/knowledge of God.]
“As tight-fisted and closed-minded followers of Christ, we can too easily find ourselves boxed into a sub-culture rather than thriving in a counter-cultural reality similar to the standard Jesus set. This is where we end up working against the momentum of the narrative God set in motion, both at the beginning of the world and its resurrection in Jesus. We must fight our way out of the box. The grandeur of Jesus (to a great extent) depends upon our effectiveness in doing so. As Bill Johnson says, ‘If Christianity is not influenced by Kingdom culture, it creates a culture that eventually works to undermine Christianity (itself).’”
“ Our task is the opposite of distraction. Our task is to help people concentrate on the real but often hidden event of God’s active presence in their lives. Hence the question [must be] not how to keep people busy but how to keep people from being so busy that they can no longer hear the voice of God who speaks into the silence.
Henry Nouwen
[I had this quote in my drafts for a long time for some reason, but I feel like this is especially relevant in my life right now.]
[I had this quote in my drafts for a long time for some reason, but I feel like this is especially relevant in my life right now.]
“But over the years I’ve come to appreciate a unique dimension of the Holy Spirit’s personality. Jesus called him the Counselor. He comforts the afflicted. But like a good counselor, He also afflicts the comfortable. And I came to a place in my life where I was uncomfortable with my level of comfort.”
-Mark Batterson, Wild Goose Chase
“The primary reason most of us don’t see God moving is simply because we aren’t moving.”
-Mark Batterson, Wild Goose Chase
“ When your wages rise, don’t raise your standard of living, raise your standard of giving.
David Platt, Elephant Room Conference (via dierdremadrid)
(Source: solideogloriaa, via dierdremadrid)
“The more you’re willing to risk, the more God can use you. And if you’re willing to risk everything, then there is nothing God can’t do in you and through you.”
-Pastor Mark
“ To be certain of God means that we are uncertain in all our ways; we do not know what a day may bring forth. This is generally said with a sigh of sadness; it should rather be an expression of breathless expectation.
Oswald Chambers
“The world is not impressed when Christians get rich and say thanks to God. They are impressed when God is so satisfying that we give our riches away for Christ’s sake and count it gain.”
-John Piper, Don’t Waste Your Life
“Yet if we are to preach that God is not only involved in the big matters of salvation, redemption and justice, but is also in the routine circumstances of daily life, then we need to show an interest in the ordinary events of people’s lives. People will watch what we do before they listen to what we say.”
-Adam S. McHugh
