David Perng

Cardigan-clad, coffee-clasping Christ-follower. Study what God loves, learn to love him more.

[David Perng @davidperng]

Godliness is attractive to God and godly people. So pursue godliness. (1 Tim. 4:7-8)

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

Most leaders value loyalty. Great leaders put a higher premium on integrity.

Loyalty is allegiance to power. You're expected to show deference and follow orders.

Integrity is allegiance to principles. You're expected to challenge orders that violate your mission or values.

[Charlie Dates @CharlieDates]

Knowing God may not make your life comfortable, but it will make it supremely meaningful.

There is meaning in the trials and troubles you’ve faced.

[Rich Villodas @richvillodas]

Living joyfully can be hard for two reasons:

1. It can *feel bad* to have joy when the world around you is in pain.

2. It can *feel hard* to have joy when you’re in a bad situation.

But we rejoice, not because all is well, but because we trust that God is at work.

#Advent

[Timothy Keller (1950-2023) @timkellernyc]

Nothing is more important than to learn how to maintain a life of purpose in the midst of painful adversity.

[Lecrae @lecrae]

Most people can’t handle nuance. They need their information nice and neat and categorical. Unfortunately we are complex beings operating in a broken world. The more you can deal with the nuance the easier it becomes to trust in a being higher and more powerful than yourself.

[JT English @jt_english]

If your view of the world is primarily influenced by power dynamics, you don’t have an ethic, you have a sociology.

A sociology that will never stop evolving based on who is powerful and who is not.

That’s our cultural moment.

The triumph of sociology and the death of ethics.

[Jen Wilkin @jenniferwilkin]

Worldly wisdom: Waiting is an evil to eliminate.

Godly wisdom: Waiting is a virtue to cultivate.

Christianity is, by definition, a religion of delayed gratification. How we wait will mark us as sojourners and strangers in an instant gratification world.

[Jen Wilkin @jenniferwilkin]

Why practice spiritual disciplines? For muscle memory.

What we repeat in times of ease we will recall in times of hardship.

[Timothy Keller (1950-2023) @timkellernyc]

Sermons aren't just to make truth clear to the mind-but to make it real to the heart. Change happens by feeding the imagination new beauties.

[Timothy Keller (1950-2023) @timkellernyc]

Preaching is not only explaining the text but also using it to engage the heart.

[Lecrae @lecrae]

Be seen doing good, but don’t do good in order to be seen.

[Rich Villodas @richvillodas]

We are called to live by faith. Not a faith centered on our own ability to believe.

A faith centered on the faithfulness of Jesus.

[Matt Smethurst @MattSmethurst]

You will never be a good Bible reader if you’ve already decided what God should say.

[Sharon Hodde Miller @SHoddeMiller]

Many of us who grew up in the church were handed very good things, but with handles that break:

- we were taught to hold the Word of God, with the handles of legalism

- to hold a holistic, integrated sexual ethic, with the handles of purity culture

[Sharon Hodde Miller @SHoddeMiller]

In ministry, it’s easy to think of the wounds, the betrayals, & the relational brokenness as constant distractions & drains on your calling.

But it’s so important to understand that faithfully walking through suffering IS the calling. That is our greatest work.

[Lecrae @lecrae]

Any identity found outside of God (popularity, social following, wealth, beauty, possessions) is shifting sand. You can lose your self worth when it’s found on earth. It can never be lost when it’s found in Jesus.

[Lecrae @lecrae]

There were 22 years in between Joseph’s dream in Genesis 37 and the birth of it in Gen. 42. Often God gives a vision that takes longer to come to fruition than we think. He’s never late, we’re just impatient.

[Timothy Keller (1950-2023) @timkellernyc]

The world’s peace is intermittent based on transitory circumstances. Christian peace is constant based on the never changing love of God.

[Lecrae @lecrae]

If we prayed thru Gods promises more than we prayed for the removal of our problems..we’d see Him at work more than ever.