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" About four days a week, I do pretty good at having a morning prayer time. But even at that, it's a rambling sort of thing. What I have learned to do better is to try to keep my mind turned toward God and ear inclined toward God throughout the day, and I think I'm doing better at that, but I've got a long way to go. "
Day
God
Morning
" A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd. "
Turn
Man
Orchestra
" A nation is blessed when it has godly leaders. "
Blessed
Leaders
Nation
" A season of suffering is a small assignment when compared to the reward. Rather than begrudge your problem, explore it. Ponder it. And most of all, use it. Use it to the glory of God. "
Small
Reward
God
" Be a doer, not a stewer. "
Doer
" Become a worry-slapper. Treat frets like mosquitoes. Do you procrastinate when a bloodsucking bug lights on your skin? 'I'll take care of it in a moment.' Of course you don't! You give the critter the slap it deserves. Be equally decisive with anxiety. "
You
Skin
Moment
" Compassion in evangelical churches is out of balance. When I talk about it, I get a lot of glazed expressions. "
Talk
Compassion
Out
" For years I thought my assignment or the Church's assignment was to articulate the Gospel and nothing more. Now I believe that if we don't support the verbal expression of the Gospel with physical demonstration of compassion, we are not imitating Jesus. "
Thought
Support
Compassion
" God is not troubled by one who is conservative or liberal, and He certainly never inclines His ear toward a donkey or an elephant. "
Ear
Elephant
Never
" God meets daily needs daily. Not weekly or annually. He will give you what you need when it is needed. "
You
Will
Need
" God's glory is the big news of the Bible, and my desire is that it would be all about me, but really it's all about God's glory. "
Bible
Glory
God
" God will use whatever he wants to display his glory. Heavens and stars. History and nations. People and problems. "
History
God
Stars
" Grace is God as heart surgeon, cracking open your chest, removing your heart - poisoned as it is with pride and pain - and replacing it with his own. "
Grace
Pride
God
" I don't believe our works save us, but I believe they follow us into heaven and bring glory to God. "
Glory
Believe
I Believe
" If we can understand that death is not the end but is really a transition into the next life, the great part of life, that frees us up into receiving God's courage and his help. "
End
Courage
Death
" If we think that this life is all there is to life, then there is no interpretation of our problems, our pain, not even of our privileges. But everything changes when we open up to the possibility that God's story is really our story too. "
Pain
Life
God
" I get one hour, really 25 minutes in a sermon on a weekend, to combat all the hours of the week that people are told you are what you have through billboards, commercials, and sitcoms, and so forth. "
Weekend
People
Through
" Initially, when I first became a Christian and got into ministry, my thought was that God existed to make my life better and to take me to Heaven. Now I realize that it is not about me at all. It is all about God and that He did this to display His plan to restore the Earth to the Garden of Eden state. "
Thought
My Life
Me
" I think that a church should be setting the pace for social justice. "
Church
Think
Justice
" It seems to me that election season is just a Petri dish for anger and cynicism. "
Season
Cynicism
Anger
" I was raised in the greatest of homes... just a really great dad, and I miss him so much... he was a good man, a real simple man... Very faithful, always loved my mom, always provided for the kids, and just a lot of fun. "
Simple
Mom
Man
" Lower your expectations of earth. This isn't heaven, so don't expect it to be. "
Heaven
Expect
Earth
" My book centers in on the New Testament, the goal being to help a person who wants to understand the Bible to see how what God did as revealed in the New Testament will reveal to them their own personal story. "
Book
Bible
God
" My first encounters with faith came about the time I was a Boy Scout, at about 14 or 15. I made the logical deduction that they operate the same way; I treated my faith like earning a merit badge, and everything about Christianity was about earning merit badges. "
Time
Everything
Faith
" One of the greatest gifts we can give people is the hope that their death is nothing to fear - you know, not that it has no fear in it, but the promise of scripture is that God will lead us through the valley of the shadow of death. "
God
Shadow
People
" One of the things I discover a lot in marriage counseling is the husband or wife trying to get their spiritual thirst quenched by their partner; I think that's a real common mistake that we make. "
Mistake
Spiritual
Marriage
" People assume when they come into a church and see a person up there speaking, 'That person must be a good person.' My challenge through the years has been believing that: 'I guess I must be a really good person.' I struggle with it. It just helps me to keep that confessional posture. "
Struggle
People
Me
" Sentences are like just caught fish. Spunky today, stinky tomorrow. "
Just
Like
Today
" The apostle Paul never seemed to exhaust the topic of grace - what makes us think we can? He just kept coming at it and coming at it from another angle. That's the thing about grace. It's like springtime. You can't put it in a single sentence definition, and you can't exhaust it. "
Grace
Never
Think
" The idea of a spiritual heart transplant is a vivid image to me; once you have the heart of somebody else inside you, then that heart is there. Jesus' heart is inside me, and my heart is gone. So if God were to place a stethoscope against my chest, he would hear the heart of Jesus Christ beating. "
Me
Heart
God
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