Category: obedience

The purpose of the cross is to completely decimate your loyalty to the most seductive/powerful of all idols—the idol of self. ~David Tripp But in fact Christ has been …

  The cross is “I” crossed out…. The cross is always ready, everywhere in wait for you. You cannot escape it wherever you run, for wherever you go, you …

It would be hard to believe God too much: it is dreadfully common to believe him too little. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon After this there was a feast of …

And yet I decide, every day, to set aside what I can do best and attempt what I do very clumsily–open myself to the frustrations and failures of loving, …

I have often, myself, sat in darkness, and cried aloud for the Holy Spirit to deliver me from the fantasies that gather round a parched soul like flies round …

Without fear I can acknowledge that the authentic Christian tension is not between life and death, but between life and life.~Brennan Manning This is My commandment, that you love …

In seeking to preserve your own life you will lose it.  If you are prepared to lose your life for God’s sake, you will find it…  I believe that …

He does not need to transplant us into a different field, but right where we are, with just the circumstances that surround us, he makes his sun to shine …