Steve McMillan

Doing my best to invest my life in the things that matter and last.

[Sharon Hodde Miller @SHoddeMiller]

Sensible
Respectable
Not a bully but gentle
Not quarrelsome
Must have a good reputation among outsiders
Above reproach

The bar for Christian leaders is HIGH, but Scripture also gave us a bit of a cheat code for every single one:

Speak less.

[Steve McMillan @Lifesremains]

“Let me keep my mind on what matters,
which is my work,
which is mostly standing still
and learning to be astonished.
My work is loving the world.”
- Mary Oliver

[Steve McMillan @Lifesremains]

@iamawelldweller Thanks for this Erik!

[Steve McMillan @Lifesremains]

"How much larger your life would be if your self could be smaller in it."
---G.K. Chesterton in Orthodoxy (1908), Chapter IX, titled "Authority and the Adventurer."

[Steve McMillan @Lifesremains]

“The Bible requires us to make one painfully humbling admission —the one confession we work so hard to avoid: that our deepest, most pervasive, and most abiding problem is us! If you can humbly make this admission, your life will never be the same.” - Paul David Tripp

[Seth Troutt @Seth_Troutt]

Theology profs Local elders

[Steve McMillan @Lifesremains]

"Bookkeeping is an honourable profession, but not in relationships."
- Rubel Shelley

[Steve McMillan @Lifesremains]

“To escape the distress caused by regret for the past or fear about the future, this is the rule to follow: leave the past to the infinite mercy of God, the future to his good providence: give the present wholly to his love by being faithful to his grace.”
-Jean-Pierre de Causade

[Scotty Smith @ScottyWardSmith]

“How unspeakably wonderful to know that all our concerns are held in hands that bled for us.” John Newton

[MisterRogersQuotes @MisterRogersSay]

"The older I get, the more convinced I am that the space between people who are trying their best to understand each other is hallowed ground."

[Steve McMillan @Lifesremains]

@drmarkdeyoung @revolmarriage Congratulations!

[MisterRogersQuotes @MisterRogersSay]

“Real strength has to do with helping others.”

[MisterRogersQuotes @MisterRogersSay]

“Being kind means responding to the needs of others—and people can be kind, no matter how old or young we are.”

[Steve McMillan @Lifesremains]

"The measure of my spirit of criticism is the measure of my distance from Christ." -E. Stanley Jones

[Steve McMillan @Lifesremains]

@LondonHatch "The Glory of Preaching" - Darrell Johnson

[𝐎. 𝐀𝐥𝐚𝐧 𝐍𝐨𝐛𝐥𝐞 @TheAlanNoble]

With few exceptions:

It doesn't get easier. You won't have more time. Things won't slow down. This isn't just a season. Either you take joy where you are, or you won't.

[𝐎. 𝐀𝐥𝐚𝐧 𝐍𝐨𝐛𝐥𝐞 @TheAlanNoble]

#noblewords

[Steve McMillan @Lifesremains]

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[Steve McMillan @Lifesremains]

“From the time you were very little, you’ve had people who have smiled you into smiling, people who have talked you into talking, sung you into singing, loved you into loving. Let’s take some time to think of those extra special people” - Mister Rogers

[Steve McMillan @Lifesremains]

"Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away... your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossoms had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two." - David Brooks