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Most leaders are trying to figure out the right strategy. The best leaders are obsessed with empowering the right people.
Discipleship never consists in this or that specific action: it is always a decision, either for or against Jesus Christ.
While it is good that we seek to know the Holy One, it is probably not so good to presume that we ever complete the task.
You've got to do some work now. Make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue. Virtue is about moral excellence.
Praying is what confirms our true belief that we cannot succeed without God, and its absence confirms the exact opposite.
I want to be a part of the grand plan. Being on board with God's objectives means I understand that this is not about me.
Gratitude grows from a seed called grace. If you're not grateful you might still be trying to earn what God freely gives.
Sometimes we're too focused on getting out of a situation that we don't think about what we can get out of the situation.
Praying through is all about CONSISTENCY and INTENSITY. It's 'all-nighter' prayer. It just won't take 'NO' for an answer!
You can delegate a lot of things, but you can't delegate PRAYER. I'd rather have one GOD idea than a thousand GOOD ideas.
Pride causes us to care more about what our non-Christian friends think of us than what God will do to them in their sin.
It took me a long time to understand that God is not the enemy of my enemies. God is not even the enemy of God's enemies.
For politicians truth and falsehood are unimportant. So I never could become a politician - not even a church politician.
The enemy works overtime to keep us in shame. He knows if he can keep us in shame, he can minimize our intimacy with God.
The power of God tenderizes and changes us, not spiritual disciplines. Spiritual disciplines only position us to receive.
If you always feel comfortable reading God's Word, you're either not reading ALL of it, or you aren't letting it sink in.
I don't think gay marriage is any threat to marriage. I think divorce is a bigger problem to marriage than anything else.
My whole goal is just to keep myself motivated. If I'm motivated, if I'm on fire, it's going to catch with somebody else.
My calmness is peace of heart, which reflects in the life I live. This peace of heart is the source that calms the storm.
There is never a sickness Jesus cannot heal and never a disease Jesus cannot cure. To God's power, nothing is impossible!
In the mighty name of Jesus, all knees shall bow; all tongues shall confess! Now, in the name of Jesus, you are released!
Scripture would not only solve the individual and family divisions, but it would also solve the ecclesiastical confusion.
Our assurance is anchored in the love and grace of God expressed in the glorious exchange: our sin for His righteousness.
God is inviting you today to appropriately grieve your pains and losses and to acknowledge the world is seriously broken.
While some misuse their freedom to perpetrate evil, millions respond by feeling compelled to use their freedom to do good.
The Bible is one book, written by one Author, with one subject: Jesus Christ and the salvation God...provides through Him.
Refusal to forgive reveals we have minimized our offense against God and we have maximized a brother's offense against us.
People may not be impressed by our theological grasp, but they may be impressed by our expressions of practical godliness.
80% of your problems are not PEOPLE problems ... they are SYSTEM problems, because systems create the behaviors of people.
If your goal is to produce firefighters and rescue workers, you have to produce people willing to enter burning buildings.
Tell yourself right now and throughout today, that it's okay to draw away from the maddening crowd. Jesus did; so can you.
I know of nothing more valuable, when it comes to the all-important virtue of authenticity, than simply being who you are.
We gain the ability to rejoice under pressure through a carefully monitored training program directed by the Lord Himself.
Basically, there are two paths you can walk: faith or fear. It's impossible to simultaneously trust God and not trust God.
Unreached peoples are unreached for a reason. They're hard, difficult, and dangerous to reach. All the easy ones are taken
Jesus is no longer one to be accepted or invited in but one who is infinitely worthy of our immediate and total surrender.
Why not begin operating under the idea that God has given us excess, not so we could have more, but so we could give more?
The deceit, the lie of the Devil consists of this, that he wishes to make man believe that he can live without God's Word.
We cannot pursue a classical and Christian education as a fad. We are not purchasing intellectual hula hoops for the kids.
Salvation is all about the grace of God. There is absolutely nothing that you can do to save yourself or earn God's favor.
Not only is homosexuality a sin, but anyone who supports fags is just as guilty as they are. You are both worthy of death.
What we now consider to be radical behavior was to early believers nothing more than a sincere attempt to live obediently.
The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.
I'm glad now, at age 66, that I never used alcohol or tobacco... I've buried a lot of friends who used tobacco or alcohol.
Don't overcomplicate God's will. Just stay connected to Jesus. Love Him. Look into His eyes. He will lead. Follow. Repeat.
It's horrifying and absurd to think that there are currently more slaves on earth than at any other time in human history.
We usually focus on what we're doing or where we're going, but God's primary concern is who we're becoming in the process.
One of our fundamental spiritual problems is this: we want God to do something new while we keep doing the same old thing.
We are all called to have faith. So all of us are called to evangelize, while some are specially gifted for this ministry.
Worship is living our life individually and corporately as continuous living sacrifices to the glory of a person or thing.