"These people who have been turning the world upside down have come here also...
They are all acting contrary to the decree of the emperor, saying that there is another king named Jesus."
(Acts 17:6-7)
Being "right" is not the same as being Christlike. Jesus didn’t just win arguments. He won people. Truth without love is noise. Love without truth is hollow. But love with truth? That's what changes lives.
The great illusion of leadership is to think that man can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there.
Henri Nouwen, The Wounded Healer
Until I found Jesus Christ I felt like I was stitched together by what everyone else said about me.... my self image looked like a Frankenstein’s monster.
—Tim Keller
The “put it into practice” in Phil. 4:9 reminds me that we have a faith meant to be lived out in our everyday lives.
“Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me—put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you.”
Philippians 4:9 NIV
Let me fix that headline…
FSU’s Jameis Winston is now joined by Michigan’s J.J McCarthy with a 96.3 winning percentage as a starting QB.
However, with 6,086 yards passing over three seasons McCarthy was unable to match Winston’s 7,694 yards passing yards over his two seasons.
Before the water turned into wine, someone had to do the ordinary, tiresome task of filling the water pots.
We want the new wine to just appear, but Jesus calls us to fill the jars first.
In short, God often wants us to participate in our own transformation.
“It is not speaking that breaks our silence, but the anxiety to be heard. The words of the proud man impose silence on all others, so that he alone may be heard. The humble man speaks only in order to be spoken to.”
-Thomas Merton
“Tim Keller’s writings inspired us to be a church that the city must have, a church that steps on the city’s ground and seeks to connect with it,” says a pastor in Recife, Brazil.
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