Beth Grootegoed

Follower of Jesus Christ, wife, mom and grandma

[Crazy Love @crazylove]

"If you wait until all of your own issues are gone before helping others, it will never happen. This is a trap that millions have fallen into, not realizing that our own sanctification happens as we minister to others." -Francis Chan

[Timothy Keller (1950-2023) @timkellernyc]

If God allowed a perfect man to suffer terribly, why should we think that something like that could never happen to us?

[C. S. Lewis @CSLewisDaily]

“Of course God does not consider you hopeless. If He did, He would not be moving you to seek Him (and He obviously is)."
#CSLewis

[Tim Keller Wisdom @DailyKeller]

If you uproot an idol in your life and fail to plant the love of Christ in its place, the idol will grow back.

[Beth Moore @BethMooreLPM]

The Eternal God who has neither beginning nor end fashioned mortals for both. As surely as we need new beginnings, we need definitive endings. There are some things that need a full-stop-end with this old year: That feud/affair/fixation on that rival or that idol/that side thing.

[Beth Moore @BethMooreLPM]

The emotional punishment needs an end. Some old emails we keep rereading need trashing. Sentimental keepsakes from a wrong relationship need throwing away TODAY. Time to delete some texts. Block some numbers. Unblock others. Time for all contact with a particular person to end...

[Beth Moore @BethMooreLPM]

Time to stop beating at a door God cemented shut. Time to end our self-defending & -promoting. Time to end what is flat-out not working & we know good & well is never going to work. Time to end a financial deal we made with the devil. Time to end because it’s time to begin again.

[Tim Keller Wisdom @DailyKeller]

People think a Christian is one who follows Christ’s teaching and example, but Jesus is not primarily a teacher. He’s a rescuer.

[Sola Media @solamediaorg]

The American Gospel

[Tim Keller Wisdom @DailyKeller]

One of the biggest obstacles in the way of people coming to Christianity is that they think they know about it already.

[Beth Moore @BethMooreLPM]

This idea that God puts up with secret sins from His servants for the greater good is a total crock. He waits, warns, waits, warns then comes for us with a blazing bulldozer. I know because Scripture says. I know because I’ve experienced it. God will not be mocked.

[Beth Moore @BethMooreLPM]

Play it straight. What you manipulate to get, you will rarely get to keep.

[C. S. Lewis @CSLewisDaily]

"You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him & kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet & call him Lord & God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to."
#CSLewis

[Fake SportsCenter @FakeSportsCentr]

The CIA will be using today's Browns vs Jets game film to torture terrorists.

[Beth Moore @BethMooreLPM]

If God uses a wounding to heal us of our hate, a tearing-wide-open to mend a great divide, don't despise the scar. It bears an awful beauty.

[Timothy Keller (1950-2023) @timkellernyc]

Christians don't believe that goodness gets you to heaven. Christians believe it's exhausting to rely on your own goodness to please God.

[John Piper @JohnPiper]

There is an infinite difference between having Spirit-given, biblical convictions, and having inherited preferences that sound biblical.

[Beth Moore @BethMooreLPM]

Hate shapes an idol out of its object. Our knees drop where our minds are affixed and we end up worshiping the very person or thing we hate.

[John Piper @JohnPiper]

If you are becoming hard towards someone, and love is fading, you are closing yourself off from the knowledge of Christ. Colossians 2:2

[Timothy Keller (1950-2023) @timkellernyc]

Only if your God can outrage you and make you struggle will you know that you worship the real God and not a figment of your imagination