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Sometimes I wonder if we don't see Christ's love as much in the people he tolerated as in the pain he endured.
I think you could say every pastor is writing this book [ Max on Life]; for many it just never gets published.
Compassion in evangelical churches is out of balance. When I talk about it, I get a lot of glazed expressions.
No one wants your worries...not even you. Anxiety comes at a high cost. Let Jesus lead you beside still waters.
No one can pray and worry at the same time. When we worry, we aren't praying. When we pray, we aren't worrying.
Today's belief is tomorrow's behavior. If you want to be happier person tomorrow, sow seeds of happiness today.
The mind that is full of God is empty of anxiety. Are you troubled, restless, sleepless? Then think of God more!
To see sin without grace is despair. To see grace without sin is arrogance. To see them in tandem is conversion.
I remember enjoying writing those, theres two clues of a gift: you enjoy doing it and people enjoy you doing it.
Give a man religion without reminding him of his filth, and the result will be arrogance in a three- piece suit.
God never promises to remove us from our struggles. He does promise, however, to change the way we look at them.
Our belief in God is not blind faith. Belief is having a firm conviction something is true, not hoping it's true.
1 out of 3 Americans says, "I hate my job." 80-plus percent say, "I'm ill-equipped and unenthused about my work."
God will use whatever he wants to display his glory. Heavens and stars. History and nations. People and problems.
God has enough grace to solve every dilemma you face, wipe every tear you cry, and answer every question you ask.
I think I could do better in my approach to application. I think I could do better in preaching practical sermons.
There was a time I wanted to go into politics. And so all of a sudden, here I am, I guess. I'm in the thick of it.
You are valuable because you exist. Not because of what you do or what you have done - but simply because you are.
I simply think God is greater than our weakness. In fact, I think it is our weakness that reveals how great God is.
Kind of the bottom line for me, I don't think people come to the church where I preach to hear my view on politics.
It's nothing mystical, necessarily. It's nothing secretive. It's just what we do with our body we do with our soul.
On the eve of the cross, Jesus made his decision. He would rather go to hell for you than go to heaven without you.
Jesus isn't a God who stayed on the mountaintop - he's a Savior who came down and lived and worked with the people.
When a Christian stops growing, help is needed. If you are the same Christian you were a few months ago, be careful.
How my relationship with my parents influenced my writing, really not at all. My dad was a mechanic, my mom a nurse.
I don't think I have ever created an entire fiction piece or followed a historical piece and made that into a sermon.
God's love never ceases. Never... God doesn't love us less if we fail or more if we succeed. God's love never ceases.
Christ lived the life we could not live and took the punishment we could not take to offer the hope we cannot resist.
I think a story is an attention grabber. I think it's a truth conveyor. Those are two great features of a good story.
Fredrick Buechner kind of loosened me up, hes got a little irreverency to him and I have a little too much reverancy.
Your pain has a purpose. Your problems, struggles, heartaches, and hassles cooperate toward one end-the glory of God.
Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. To these I commit my day.
Faithful servants have a way of knowing answered prayer when they see it, and a way of not giving up when they don't.
Where we might think of sin as slip-ups or missteps, God views sin as a godless attitude that leads to godless action.
Ggrace is God's best idea - it's His decision to ravage people by love, to rescue passionately, and to restore justly.
Don't equate the presence of God with a good mood or a pleasant temperament. God is near whether you are happy or not.
Christianity teaches salvation by grace through faith, every other religion teaches salvation through works and merit.
In March 2011 I'm trying to decide on a sermon series that I will preach in January 2012. So, I'm about six months out.
I think we pray, we make a clear-headed decision, and then we quit being so mean to each other. We've got to stop that.
I know what I'll be preaching in the spring, what I'll be preaching in the summer, and what I'll be preaching next fall.
I do believe that leaders have to be held to a higher standard, especially Christian leaders. I put myself in that camp.
Unhappiness on earth cultivates a hunger for heaven. By gracing us with a deep dissatisfaction, God holds our attention.
Blessed are those who know what on earth they are here on earth to do and set themselves about the business of doing it.
Reading the Bible can be like meeting someone you don't know who, oddly, somehow seems to know you deeply. It's uncanny.
God is able to place stars in their sockets & suspend sky like a curtain; surely He is mighty enough to light your path.
The wonders of nature call to you. The promises and prophecies of Scripture speak to you. God himself reaches out to you.
It's up to me to promote my faith and somebody else to promote theirs. Let the government just protect our right to do so.
I believe a personal relationship with God is healthy, but organized religion has potential for danger, in whatever faith.
Let's try to present the same gospel but in a fresh fashion, always looking for a better way to connect with the audience.
In the great orchestra we call life, you have an instrument and a song, and you owe it to God to play them both sublimely.