thereadingchronicles

[thereadingchronicles]

In my opinion, there are two essential problems with believing God is somebody He isn't. The first problem is that it wrecks your life, and the second is that it makes God look like an idiot.

Donald Miller, Searching for God Knows What

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[thereadingchronicles]

You'll never get to know Him without [actually talking to Him personally]. You'll know all about Him and then what you know about Him will convict your life and then your convictions will turn into, slowly, condemnation cause you'll weigh your life based on what you know and it won't look like what you know and you'll condemn yourself. So you'll judge yourself by yourself. And then you'll hear stuff like this in your head: "Well, if I didn't get it by now I'm probably never going to get it." "Well I had every opportunity and here's my life, still the same. I guess maybe I'm not even saved. I guess maybe I'm not sincere, maybe I'm just not pure," and the whole time you care inside which means you're alive. ... Your heart's crying out inside, that's a sign you're alive inside and you're being deceived. You cry yourself to sleep, that's a good sign in the sense that you're alive inside, your heart's not as far away as you think, your understanding's just far away. You're just an understanding away from transformation. ... Where sin's abounding, grace is coming greater. Why? To deliver you and show you who you are.

Dan Mohler, Fight the Good Fight of Faith

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[thereadingchronicles]

You can live holy without trying to be holy. Trying to be holy is why you won't live holy. But when you understand you're right in the sight of God, righteousness produces its fruit to holiness. Everything has children. Discouragement births things. Truth births things.

Dan Mohler, The Good Fight of Faith

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[thereadingchronicles]

It's not about failing, it's about becoming. You run to Him.

Dan Mohler, The Good Fight of Faith

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[thereadingchronicles]

I guess [God] believes He's Lord over the fire! That's probably why He didn't put the fire out. Why would you put the fire out and give the honor to the fire? Why would you teach us that the fire needs to be honored and put out when [Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego] just need to be in the middle of it unfazed, untouched, and unscathed? That's greater honor to what they believe! It was never about the fire going out, it's about what you believe.

Dan Mohler, The Good Fight of Faith

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[thereadingchronicles]

Suffering is a wilderness experience. We feel very much alone and helpless, cut off from others who cannot know how we suffer.

Elisabeth Elliot, Loneliness

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[thereadingchronicles]

“Never mind if you cannot feel His presence. He is there, never for one moment forgetting you.”

— Elisabeth Elliot, Passion & Purity

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[thereadingchronicles]

We are women, and my plea is let me be a woman, holy through and through, asking for nothing but what God wants to give me, receiving with both hands and with all my heart whatever that is.

Elisabeth Elliot

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[thereadingchronicles]

It often happens that those whose loss is greatest receive the greatest share of grace, mercy, and peace. This does not mean that they never cry, of course. But they do not collapse.

Elisabeth Elliot, Loneliness

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[thereadingchronicles]

You teach me all these phenomenal stories in Sunday school when I'm a little kid, but when I'm old enough to believe them and I'm in a war that's necessary to believe them, you tell me to chill out and find balance and use wisdom. I think we're going after God on this one from now on.

Dan Mohler, Interview with Randy Clark

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[thereadingchronicles]

This girl in Iowa was a cutter... just totally annihilated her flesh, you have no idea how bad she was. Cause for years she did it to herself... She's praying and she looks down, she unwraps her arms... absolutely flawless skin. Some of the church that doesn't understand the power of God says, 'Well, that's a humble reminder, just so she never goes back...' No, it's called regret, guilt, shame, embarrassment. You tell me what's a greater move of God: God leaving that on you as a humble reminder or taking that off of you when you know you deserve it? What's going to wreck you more?

Dan Mohler, Biblical Healing in Action

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[thereadingchronicles]

Jesus described the moral law as a mirror. You can look at a mirror and find out that your face is dirty, but you don't go and rub your face on the mirror to clean it. So you go to something other than the mirror.

Ravi Zacharias (THE LAW: A Muslim Student Challenges Ravi Zacharias)

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[thereadingchronicles]

When we put ourselves in a position to make a judgment, or even like an assumption, about the Almighty God, we do not know what we are talking about. We are completely ill-informed. And the only way we're ever going to become informed is to be in God's presence as a son or a daughter, not as an accuser. Remember this story and how it began? Who is the accuser in the story? Satan. So why would we want to do Satan's work by becoming an accuser of God?

Brian Hardin, Daily Audio Bible (September 1, 2019)

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[thereadingchronicles]

“Why do people act like ‘being real’ covers a multitude of sins? As if someone is courageous simply for sharing virally every thought or dark place. That’s not courageous. It’s cavalier. Have they considered the ramifications? As if they are the harbingers of truth, saying ‘I used to think one way and practice it and preach it, but now I’ve learned all the new truth and will start practicing and preaching it.’ So the influencers become the voice for truth in whatever stage of life and whatever evolution takes place in their thinking.”

“... I’m amazed that so many Christians want the benefits of the kingdom of God, but with the caveat that they themselves will be the King.”

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[thereadingchronicles]

People are mistaken when they think chasing your dream is a selfish thing to do. As if perhaps being average is an act of humility. As if perhaps wasting the talents you were given is proof that you're a considerate individual. It's not.

Jon Acuff, Start

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[thereadingchronicles]

[In guiding others] I don't go to breakfast every day, or lunch or coffee. I once heard a pastor say, "I'd love to go to coffee with every one of you, but then I'd never have time to do all the things that make you want to have coffee with me in the first place. Like studying, reading, researching, and helping the people I've committed to."

Jon Acuff, Start

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[thereadingchronicles]

Most people can't stand to get a compliment. The first thing we do is try to deny it. ... But when someone insults us or hates on what we're doing, we have a very different reaction. Suddenly, we stop everything else we're working on and focus on the hate.

Jon Acuff, Start

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