Holy Spirit-anointed preaching is the means that seems best designed to aid spiritual formation.
“Connecting with people in a powerful way is a skill that must be developed, nurtured, and practiced.”
― The Seven Levels of Intimacy: The Art of Loving and the Joy of Being Loved
― The Seven Levels of Intimacy: The Art of Loving and the Joy of Being Loved
“Gifts are things we do, but spiritual fruit or graces are things we are”
― Preaching: Communicating Faith in an Age of Skepticism
― Preaching: Communicating Faith in an Age of Skepticism
“We often think of choice as a thing. But a choice is not a thing. Our options may be things, but a choice—a choice is an action”
― Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
― Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
“The word priority came into the English language in the 1400s. It was singular. It meant the very first or prior thing. It stayed singular for the next five hundred years. Only in the 1900s did we pluralize the term and start talking about priorities. Illogically, we reasoned that by changing the word we could bend reality. Somehow we would now be able to have multiple “first” things.”
― Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
― Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
“The most devastating form of loneliness is not to be without friends; rather, it is to be surrounded by friends and never to be truly known.”
― The Seven Levels of Intimacy: The Art of Loving and the Joy of Being Loved
― The Seven Levels of Intimacy: The Art of Loving and the Joy of Being Loved
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