The Bible is the ultimate authority and infallible, not the pastor and not the elders. And it doesn't mean that you believe everything he says without examining it.
God's grace is so powerful that it has the capacity to overcome our natural resistance to it.
The Kingdom of God is not a matter of getting individuals to heaven, but of transforming the life on earth into the harmony of heaven.
The church is not a campus but a community. Pastors are not CEOs; they are shepherds.
The first and principal duty of a pastor is to feed the flock by diligent preaching of the word
Don't allow your past or present condition to control you. It's just a process that you're going through to get you to the next level.
I have tried to devote my life - with all my husband failures, father failures, pastor failures, friend failures, any other possible failures I'm sure I've done them - to the God-centeredness of God and my aspiring, yearning to join Him in that activity. God is passionate about hallowing the name of God.
The reason why many fail in battle is because they wait until the hour of battle. The reason why others succeed is because they have gained their victory on their knees long before the battle came. Anticipate your battles; fight them on your knees before temptation comes, and you will always have victory.
Jesus taught that your highest priority must be your relationship with Him. If anything detracts you from that relationship, that activity is not from God. God will not ask you to do something that hinders your relationship with Christ.
Remember, when something leaves your life, God is making room for something much better to enter! Get ready!
Prayer, study, and suffering make a pastor.
I continue to be a pastor who speaks to the people of God about the things of God.
God uses millions of no-name influencers every day in the simplest selfless acts of service. They are the teachers whose names will never be in the newspaper, pastors who will never author a book, managers who will never be profiled in a magazine, artists whose work is buried in layers of collaboration, writers whose sphere of influence is a few dozen people who read their blogs. But they are the army that makes things happen. To them devotion is its own reward. For them influence is a continual act of giving, nothing more complicated than that.
God didn't give you the strength to get back on your feet so that you can run back to the same things that knocked you down.
This is how God works. He puts people in positions where they are desperate for his power, and then he shows his provision in ways that display his greatness
Don’t concern yourself with being right in others’ eyes. And don’t secretly hope that their lives will fall apart so that your opinion will be vindicated. Instead, concentrate on obeying God in your own life and, when possible, helping others to obey Him as well. You don’t have to prove others wrong to continue on the course you know God has shown you.
Citizenship means standing up for the lives that gun violence steals from us each day. I have seen the courage of parents, students, pastors, and police officers all over this country who say 'we are not afraid,' and I intend to keep trying, with or without Congress, to help stop more tragedies from visiting innocent Americans in our movie theaters, shopping malls, or schools like Sandy Hook.
God sometimes answers our prayers by giving us what we would have asked for had we known what He knows.
Christianity does not begin with our pursuit of Christ, but with Christ’s pursuit of us.
Creative words generate energy; negative words drain out energy.
A dream becomes a reality as a result of your actions, and your actions are controlled, to a large extent, by your habits.
Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.
To pray is to accept that we are, and always will be, wholly dependent on God for everything.
The voice you believe will determine the future you experience
IN THE WORLD OF advertising, every copywriter knows the power of two magic words: "Free!" and "New!" We see them in the supermarket, in the newspaper, on billboards. And consumers respond. In the church today, we are falling prey to the appeal of "New!" The old truths of the gospel don't seem spectacular enough. We're restless for the latest, greatest, newest teaching or technique. We pastors in particular seem to search for a shortcut or some dynamic new strategy that will fire up our churches.
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