There's a lot of things blamed on me that never happened. But then, there's a lot of things that I did that I never got caught at.
Put your 'yes' on the table and let God put it on the map.
If you're regularly willing to give a critique, but not willing to take one, you're not a leader, you're a cynic.
Regrettably, we've made it acceptable to sit in church week after week & do nothing & still call yourself a 'Christian. '
A church without the broken is a broken church.
Being Missional means actually doing mission right where you are. Missional means adopting the posture of a missionary, learning and adapting to the culture around you while remaining Biblically sound.
To engage people in culture we must remember that holiness is separation from sin, not separation from sinners.
I am reading The Lord of the Rings. I suddenly wanted to. I almost know it by heart, but I can still sink right into it. I know no other book that is so much like going on a journey. When I put it down to this, I feel as if I am also waiting with Pippin for the echoes of that stone down the well.
Reverb does that thing where you make one sound and it grows to 20 times its original size and fills everything up.
At the time of Polaroid - and I did a couple of other commercials just before I stopped doing that stuff - at that point I was at the level where they respect you and your opinion and all that sort of thing.
Is there such a thing as a technically perfect swing? If there is, I have yet to see it.