When God acts powerfully on earth, people are the point – we are always either directly involved and/or directly impacted.
Anything we can, and could say about the Holy Spirit will always come back to the fact that the Spirit is the breath, the wind, the living, active, creative, and life-giving presence – of the Creator of the universe.
I give you my desires and affections and only receive them back as they have been granted by you.
I give you my desires and affections and only receive them back as they have been granted by you.
What if within the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings is where the power of his resurrection becomes the most real and the most powerful?
Grace is the unmerited, unmitigated favor of God for sinners like me and you.
This great gospel of the grace of God in Jesus Christ upends its enemies not by breaking down their doors but by infiltrating their minds and hearts with the love of God.
True giving, which is to say sacrificial giving, cannot be measured in amounts, percentage or otherwise. It is the manifestation of a surrendered soul in love for God and others.
The truth? I can’t do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
There is only one antidote to the cancer of scarcity—radical generosity.
All of the learning and receiving and hearing and seeing in the world will amount to less than nothing if we do not put it into practice.
Our thoughts become our destiny.
