We forget that God's primary goal is not changing our situations and relationships so that we can be happy, but changing us through our situations and relationships so that we will be holy. ~ Paul David Tripp, Instruments in the Redeemer’s Hands … [Read more...]
Praise grows out of God-given perception of reality, a seeing that God is infinitely good and infinitely good to me in Jesus Christ in every circumstance. ~ C. John Miller, The Heart of a Servant Leader: Letters from Jack Miller … [Read more...]
God-given prayer and praise have as their essence a waiting on God, a willingness to be wrought upon by the hammer and the fire of the Almighty, until the chains of self-centered desires fall away from the personality, and the love of Christ becomes the deepest hunger in the inner life. ~ C. John Miller, The Heart of a Servant Leader: Letters from Jack Miller … [Read more...]
We were made for [God's] glory, and we are called to display his glory in everything we do. . . . Sin makes us glory thieves. ~ Paul David Tripp, Instruments in the Redeemer's Hands … [Read more...]
Christmas is for freedom. Freedom from the fear of death. Jesus took our nature in Bethlehem, to die our death in Jerusalem, that we might be fearless in our city. Yes, fearless. ~ John Piper … [Read more...]