“Get to the root of your fear, underneath the chaos of anxiety. A part of me is frightened are powerful words to say as you draw near to God and live from your Spirit-led self. As with Moses, God may not take away your fear. But he will strengthen you with courage as you trust […]
“What’s the point in trying to be who you aren’t? If you succeed, you is who you ain’t, and you ain’t who you is. You’re actually less like the person God designed you and destined you to be. That isn’t succeeding; it’s failing.”- Mark Batterson In Chapter 6 (“The Voice of Gladness”) of Whisper, Mark […]
“As humans who live in a broken world, we come to know weakness in the same way we come to know a new scar on our flesh; what is at first unfamiliar and new eventually becomes normal, consistent, even expected.”- Ann Swindell In Chapter 2 (“When Waiting Makes You Weak”) of Still Waiting, Ann Swindell […]
Brokenness is the antidote to shame.”- Dan Allender and Tremper Longman, The Cry of the Soul (1994) “The LORD is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.”- Psalm 34:18 (ESV) As Sara Hagerty continues Chapter 5 of Unseen, she admits she doesn’t relish thinking of herself as vulnerable. Therefore, she explains: “Really, […]
“Christ wants a child’s heart, but a grown-up’s head. He wants us to be simple, single-minded, affectionate, and teachable, as good children are; but He also wants every bit of intelligence we have . . .”- C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity “I, therefore, a prisoner of the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner […]
“Don’t get your tinsel in a tangle.”- Anonymous “The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light; they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.”- Isaiah 9:2 (KJV) “Hope is patience with the lamp lit.”- Tertullian During my childhood years, most people in my […]
“Our loves are formed by our daily liturgies.”- Ann Voskamp “To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken.”- C. S. Lewis In Chapter 8 (“Why Love is Worth Breaking Your Heart”) of The Broken Way, Ann Voskamp provides the sole way to rise to […]
“It takes great trust to believe in the smallest of beginnings.”- Ann Voskamp “If you pour yourself out for the hungry and satisfy the desire of the afflicted, then shall your light rise in the darkness and your gloom be as the noonday.”- Isaiah 58:10 (ESV) Ann Voskamp concludes Chapter 5 of The Broken Way […]
“Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?”- Matthew 6:26 “It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird; it would be a jolly sight harder for it to […]