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Memory calls us back, Mystery draws us forward.
Fermentation may have been a better invention than fire.
I didn't know what I was doing, but I knew I needed God in my life.
I was running from God, but I didn't know I was running from God. I didn't know that.
I have no clue who that old Jim was. God has certainly transformed me into a different Jim.
I couldn't imagine, you know, God having a plan for my life. I thought I planned my life out.
Land and water are not really separate things, but they are separate words, and we perceive through words.
My life and my plan wasn't very good, but at least it was my plan. It got to that point that I just couldn't stand it any more.
Civilization no longer needs to open up wilderness; it needs wilderness to help open up the still largely unexplored human mind.
This is different than every other Ebola situation we've ever had. It's spreading widely, throughout entire countries, through multiple countries, in cities and very fast.
I was drunk: Christian and drunk. They just don't go together. But that's what happened. And the next day, obviously God had honored those prayers and healed me of alcoholism.
My dad was a good man but an emotionally absent father, and so I had to look for that male attention somewhere else, and found it in a brother-in-law. He just happened to be an alcoholic.
Each of us is affected by what happens to the other. Just as our movement interact on the field, so our lives interact to a certain degree. This is what is so great about being a member of a team.
I ended up getting on my knees right there in my bedroom. I didn't have a tract that had, you know, 'here's how you pray to receive Christ' on it. I had never seen a tract in my life. I had never read a Bible.
Notice how people can sit for hours and talk to one another, but call us to pray and we find it to be great difficulty. Why is this so? 1) Lack of desperation (realizing our dependence on God), 2) The wrestlings of the flesh, 3) Lack of faith to believe not only that God hears us but that He will move on our behalf.
I was trying my best not to drink. I'd go a day or two, and I just couldn't stand it. It kinda got around that 'Hamilton got religion.' So for about a year, it was the most miserable time of my life because I was secretly still drinking. One night I came home, after about a year of this, and I woke up the next day and the desire was gone.