When you strike a match to light thirty candles, you focus on the match, not the candles. Matches burn quickly and fingers feel pain. When you’re on vacation for a week, Monday is relaxed, Thursday is purposeful, and Saturday is too late — you’re packing for home. If you’re given six weeks to live, every […]
Category: Influence & leadership
What would Jesus say if He sat down next to me?*
“I’m nothing like Jesus,” Larry asserted. “I’m not even close to being like Him.” “You’re closer than you think, Larry. I can see Jesus in your life! You think about Him, you act on your convictions, you talk about Him to your friends and neighbors, and you demonstrated Him to me when I was just […]
Seven takeaways from D. L. Moody* on responding to an inspiring spiritual experience.
1. Pray for one another, but don’t bind yourselves to do it every day until death. Doing so will only burden your conscience and make an irksome duty out of what should be a delightful privilege. 2. Don’t go away and talk more about the experience than about Christ; the world needs Him. 3. Every place […]
How D. L. Moody* explained Jesus Christ.
“Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel,” Jesus told His disciples. “Wait,” Peter interrupted. “Do You really mean that we are to go back to Jerusalem and preach the Gospel to those men that murdered You?” “Yes,” Jesus told him. “Go hunt up that man that spat in my face. Tell him […]
Consequential prayer favors humility over eloquence.
Praying is not complicated. It’s talking to God. Since everyone is created in God’s image, we all have permission to speak with Him. Our challenge isn’t permission, it’s understanding our relationship to Him, and what His interests are. Here are several biblical examples of prayer that God engaged with. They don’t comprise the sum of […]
