I love my husband. Oh man, I love my children & my grandchildren. Way beyond words, I do. I love my friends & co-laborers in Christ so deeply. But the love story of my life has been with Jesus of Nazareth, whom I have never once seen & whose voice I’ve never once heard out loud.
"Whether you run to God when you mess up, or run away from God when you mess up, says everything about whether you understand the gospel." @MattChandler74#Passion2019
One of Toby’s prayer warriors—there are actual thousands of you and it humbles and holds us up daily—messaged me recently: “We are not running out of time. Time is not our God.” She’s… https://t.co/ftPjdygBgN
Abiding, as with any art, requires practice and discipline to reach that point of freedom and enjoyment. And like any artist, you’ll need to keep on practicing—repeatedly and habitually—or you’ll get rusty.
"The sooner we make peace with the fact that we are on a journey of perpetual change, the sooner we can move in close to the God who is unchangeable.”
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No one thinks about breathing, of course. It’s automatic. But it is also repetitive, continuous, and absolutely essential to life. And to breathe faith and repentance, to abide in Christ, you must start by being very conscious of it.
Looking back over 40 years of preaching, some of the sermons I left the pulpit feeling awesome about, had the least eternal impact; and some of the sermons I felt ashamed of, I learned later, God used in mighty ways. The point? I'm not the point.