Peanuts or Continents?

Do you know why I often ask Christians, 'What's the biggest thing you've asked God for this week?' I remind them that they are going to God, the Father, and the Maker of the universe. The One who holds the world in His hands. What did you ask God for? Did you ask for peanuts, toys, trinkets, or did you ask for continents?

I want to tell you… it's tragic!

The little itsy-bitsy things we ask of our Almighty God. Sure, nothing is too small--but also nothing is too big. Let's learn to ask from our big God some of those big things He talks about."

Dawson Trotman, Founder, The Navigators

Great quote

I love the way Erwin McManus says it in his book Unstoppable Force:

“The center of God’s will is not a safe place but the most dangerous place in the world.”

Then he makes a great distinction:

“To live outside of God’s will puts us in danger; to live in his will makes us dangerous.”

Love it

This is a quote from Ravi Zacharias that has huge implications for evangelism in the emerging culture.

"We must learn to find the back door to people’s hearts because the front door is heavily guarded."

Great Quote

"God doesnt change you in order to love you,he loves you in order to change you"

Great quote

Churches that don’t get hit while crossing the street of true effectiveness don’t look both ways they look three.

They look upwardly to God (worship), inwardly to serving the needs of the body (servanthood and the use of spiritual gifts) and outwardly to reach the community for Christ (outreach)

Great Quote

"To many church's are majoring on being relevant ,while minoring on being reachable."
Jeremy Sargent

Great Quote

“The world will never starve for lack of wonders, but only for lack of wonder”.G.K. Chesterton

Character

Another thought on Character

"The greatest tradgedy in christian leadership is when a leaders giftings is wanting to take them further than their character is willing to follow"

Great Minds

Awesome Quote
"Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people."

Great Quote

I love John Maxwell categorization of defining moments.

He said defining moments are ground breakers when you set a new direction in your life, heart breakers that force you to rearrange your life, cloud breakers when you see with greater clarity and chart breakers when you break through limitations that have held you back

Christianese

This is the best definition of Sanctification I have ever heard

Its what happens when Jesus takes us out of the world,takes the world out of us and then sends us back into the world to make a difference

Great Quote

"Until the future of the world matters more to the church than the future of the church..the church has no future."

Great quote

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”

Theodore Roosevelt(American 26th US President)