Someone asked why their contribution statement didn't include any of their cash giving.
I asked if they put it in an envelope with their name on it and she said no.
Ah, honey. We tried figuring out who gave based on fingerprints on the cash, but they were all from drug dealers.
“We gauge the maturity and growth of our children by how less and less dependent they become on us (the parents). However, we gauge the maturity and growth of our faith by how more and more dependent we become on God. “ ~ @cross_stevie
Even when I am compelled to withdraw my conscious attention in order to engage in earthly affairs there is always within me a secret communion with God going on.
A.W. Tozer nailed my testimony in his book: “The Pursuit of God”
Struggling with a teen? The thing in your child that you loose the most patience with may be the thing you’re battling within yourself. #ouch
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I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation...
~C.S. Lewis
A person is honored when they are enjoyed. One of the ways to do this is by manifestly enjoying their presence.
@JohnPiper Ask Pastor John episode 1252