Matt Quotes
Even though every identity marker I have can be taken from me, the grace and peace of the Trinity overflows into the life of the believer.
God's people are the stage upon which His forgiveness becomes visible. They are never more authentic than when they ask for forgiveness and forgive others.
The net that catches me when I confront traumatic events is that 10, 000 years from now, they will be a reason for rejoicing.
Institutions and cultures are not immortal. Humans, Christian and non-Christian, are. Compared to us, our country is a gnat.
Boomerang arrow, Kate -- It comes back to you in the end. Boomerang. Respect it.
Understand your audience and you will understand the impact of your message on each follower in your social media networks.
It is an EVIL thing to be an expert in the weaknesses of our brothers and sisters. We need to be experts in the strengths of our brothers and sisters.
Always look at the function, its not what you did but why do you do it? Once you find the why then you walk through another door
Be proud to act like a normal human being. Keep daylight hours, get a regular job, and mix in the company of people with a fixed sense of right and wrong.
America is no longer a country that cares about experts. In fact, it hates experts. If you can't fit a story into the culture-war storyline in ten seconds or less, it dies.
After eighteen long months covering this dreary business, the whole campaign appears in my mind’s eye as one long, protracted scratch-fight over Internet-fueled nonsense.
Sir, I cannot sing. I have no formal training. I do not read music. And I know this is a church - but I play a mean harmonica.
As we gaze on Christ, the mind is informed, and the heart is inflamed, and the body begins to line up.
Adoration drives obedience, but throughout history people are prone to forget the faithfulness of God yesterday.
Augustine in City of God pictures a resurrection in which the bodily systems we no longer need to protect ourselves can use energy to praise God.
A sure way to have someone crushed by their doubt is to preach a sermon on how to remove your doubt.
As history has shown, any new computing device capable of running a game will, by hook or by crook, soon have them available. (aka, the "Loguidice Law")
He was a living dead man. According to official records he had died, not once, but twice. yet he still breathed
When the early Church recited the Apostles Creed, it was simultaneously their greatest act of rebellion, and their greatest act of submission.
The speaker says one of the blessings of the family of God is that the enthusiasm of children influences their elders while experience seasons the younger members.
Christ distributes courage through community. He dissipates doubt through fellowship. Max Lucado
Expositing. John 14, the speaker explains that the Holy Spirit making His home with us involves Him exposing other areas of our lives for repentance, regeneration, and renewal.
To obey the commands of Scripture can finally become a delight when we see that the reasons almost always center around God's love and provision for us in Christ.
We must help men and women see the epic in the ordinary details of life.
It is in my internal and external struggles, when it feels like someone is river-dancing on my last nerve, that the fruit of the Spirit is developed.
Private worship excites us for public worship.
Worship shadows eternity and provides supernatural encouragement.
The pastor owns the opportunity to issue of the flock that it is OK not to be OK.
Moses challenged parents both to teach the faith diligently and to maximize normal encounters or ongoing discussion.
We are to be generous not just in the results of our work, but also IN our work.
The knowledge worker cannot be supervised closely or in detail. He must direct himself toward performance and contribution
I want every one of our members to grow into maturity more quickly than they seem to, but the Lord has taught me to shepherd people, call them to repentance and let Matthew 18:12–14 play out.
My understanding from the Word of God is that I am supposed to preach for the maturation of the believer with a view that lost people are there.
Jesus is the culmination of the greatness and the goodness of God.
The best way to think of the ageing process in relation to a human face is to imagine a map of an area of innocent land which slowly becomes a city with many long and winding routes.