It must be hard to cook if you anthropomorphisize your vegetables.
Beginning empty handed and alone frightens the best of men. It also speaks volumes of just how sure they are that God is with them.
You can easily tell when someone has been hit by a spear. he turns a deep shade of bitter. David never got hit. Gradually, he learned a very well-kept secret. . . One, never learn anything about the fashionable, easily mastered art of spear throwing. Two, stay out of the company of all spear throwers. And three, keep your mouth tightly closed. In this way, spears will never touch you, even when they pierce your heart.
What does this world need: gifted men and women, outwardly empowered? Or individuals who are broken, inwardly transformed?
Remove the centrality-of-Jesus-Christ message from ministry and meetings, and you can forget church life or organic meetings. He must be the center of everything. . . not in lip service, but in the dynamic experiential whole.
There is a vast difference between the outward clothing of the Spirit's power and the inward filling of the Spirit's life. In the first, despite the power, the hidden man of the heart may remain unchanged. In the latter, that monster is dealt with.
It is the Father's life, and the Father's life alone, that ever lives the Christian life. It is the Father's life, and Father's life alone, which will live the Christian life in you. Embrace a formula or a list in order to "live the Christian life," and you are doomed to frustration.
Once the product's task is known, design the interface first; then implement to the interface design.
A man should be what he seems.
In this day and age, where you have a lot of comic book movies made every day, and most of them are really good boys, it's important to have a couple bad boys out there, too.
I like making things. I have a wood shop at home. I am a terrible carpenter but I love doing it.