Jonah Books.com Quotes

Our world today is in the same condition, in total denial that God is real and angry with sinners.

My heartaches, sadness has consumed me, emptiness has filled me, hold me do not let me slip away.

If your posture is that of one washing dirty feet, you are prevented from looking down on others and, instead, look up to them.

God works in mysterious ways so if you let the world dictate the way God works, you will miss God working.

Jesus is teaching and wants you to learn. This means you will be stretched. Jesus does not want you stuck in a bonehead English class, which I was for several years.

The constant bombardment of the paranormal through media (Reality TV, Movies, Magazines etc.) is desensitizing our understanding of the cosmic warfare that is being waged by Satan.

At some point in time we have to hand over the baton.

Predestined to a destiny that only Christ can fulfill, all other leadership assures failure.

If the Great Physician examined your life, what do you think His diagnosis would be concerning your spiritual life?

Every encounter you have is a Divine encounter ordained by God.

You will always be remember for how you finish

Remembering often is rehearsing what you want reality to be.

Can you rejoice when others do well? Seems simple but most of the time we are so driven to succeed that when others make progress it stirs up resentment within our inner most being. What might happen in our workplace environments if we could be encouragers and supporters while pursuing our goals at the same time?

Jesus was always on the front-lines washing dirty feet. Humility soon is shelved in ministry and we start thinking to much of ourselves. It is hard to effectively minister in Christ name when we look down on someone, but if we are washing their feet we look up to them giving them value and worth.

Most people spend a life time thinking of what they don't have instead of taking an inventory of what they do have.

Oh may the thunder awaken me, the sun help me see, the rain refresh me and my soul bloom in thee.

Godless behavior will never provide the peace and joy it promises to produce.

Modernity has come to=syncretism

Success at the expense of goodness is like a beautiful apple tree without apples.

Our desire for knowledge is not bad but our failure to believe what God said is deadly.

My loved ones may vanish through death but my memories live on

The call to be an elder is neither a call to mediocrity nor taking a title of honor while sending others on ahead.

A proper distribution of weight allows equality on each support.

Keep an eye on the future as you work in the present and you will catch a glimpse of the completed work which you have been called to do.

The Church is enamored with skilled orators and performers working the stage like a choreographed Broadway play. Others profess to talk about how Jesus ministry was mere story telling like through parables and that is why it was so effective. It is though there is some magical incantation, if we just repeat then things will happen. It is like the current modernity movement in the church, dumb it down that is the problem. If we just take away the mystery and otherness of God then we will know and see God, really?

Death is required to restore life.

Emptiness crowded out joy and silence replaced meaning, but the Son is shining.

Those who have received mercy are destined to extend mercy

Religion does not define God's character God reveals it to us in His word and in person, in His Son Jesus Christ.

? If you are not awed in the presence of a Holy God, then I say you may be like the crowds we have been observing in the Gospel of Mark and think of Jesus as no more than a winning lottery ticket to solve your immediate problems. Once the ticket is cashed, you take the money and go your own way.

I love you' is validated with action.

Mindless activity can't experience joy.

Those who die will live but the question is a matter of location!

There is a date fixed when our work will end, which gives us assurance it will be completed.

Satan vanishes as quickly as his name appears, but Jesus emerges as the obedient Son.

In the valley of unknown, in my moments of uncertainty, the clutter flees and silence allows me to hear the voice of the LORD

The movement Mark records of Jesus is a deliberate display of the character of God so that we may know him and his ways. Jesus could have avoided the synagogue and the encounter on the Sabbath. Instead, Jesus confronts this violent injustice to the character of God propagated by Israel's current religious and political leaders. (Mark 3)-from He has to die

Leadership is not something that is added, but rather built in the DNA of creation, an orderly creation (1 Corinthians 12:12; 14:38-45; Titus 1:5; Genesis 1; 2). The real question is whether humanity has high-jacked Leadership?

The biggest obstacle to learning is LISTENING with ears to hear.

If you had all the resources in the world at your disposal to hire anybody you want who would you hire, ordinary unschooled men (Acts 4:13).