A 'school-at-home' approach to homeschooling is just decorating the electric chair in different colors.
When God saves you, he doesn’t do it because you gave him permission. He did it because he’s God.
I have always deeply desired to be an honest man who said it when I struggled, stumbled and worried. I longed to be a man with real friends - friends who knew me at my worst and loved me.
Grace-driven effort wants to get to the bottom of behavior, not just manage behavior. If you're simply managing behavior but not removing the roots of that behavior, then the weeds simply sprout up in another place.
Preach the Gospel with your life.
More often than not, we want him to have fairy wings and spread fairy dust and shine like a precious little star, dispensing nothing but good times on everyone, like some kind of hybrid of Tinker Bell and Aladdin’s Genie. But the God of the Bible, this God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, is a pillar of fire and a column of smoke.
Men of God are those who walk in the fear of the Lord.
As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly he is not a failure
The lower you are in the hierarchy the worse your health, the higher you are, the better your health.
It's just so fragile. The growing sense of 'Oh, God, what am I doing Am I any good Will I ever work again' All those questions of self doubt, they do creep in.
When you don't get a role, it wasn't meant to be.