Mark Hall Quotes

Each month there are numerous incidents where visitors are abducted by criminal groups
just long enough to withdraw the maximum amount of money from an ATM account,

Peacock bass like to hide at ambush points, away from the strong canal currents. If you fish early and know those peacock hangouts, you will have little or no trouble catching peacocks on lures and live bait.

Church is the place to be broken together.

What's true about you is what God says about you. Not what your mirror says. Not what your past says.

If people like us, our life is good. If somebody doesn't like us, our whole life is tanked. That happens at your job, especially in church ministry. It seems like everybody's your boss sometimes. You're trying to keep everybody happy and pretty soon you realize you're filling yourself up with other people's opinions of you. That's a dangerous place to live.

We are not here to get to tomorrow. We are here for today, to bloom today. We were made to Thrive!

The infrastructure of today's computing environment is for good or ill structured around the Windows operating system. Can you get around that? Yes you can, but you have to work harder to do that and most individuals and most corporations are not going to make that extra effort.

If the DHS insists, as bureaucracies are apt to do, that open-source must be certified via a sanctioned, formal process, it will interfere with the informal process of open-source itself. It seems to me the DHS is trying to turn an open-source development project into a Microsoft (or IBM or Oracle) software development project. And we know what that means: more, not fewer, errors
security and otherwise.

If you don't learn to feed yourself, you wind up dumpster diving for someone else's leftovers.

God can handle your scars. So can any genuine, loving Christian.

Worship is so much more than the songs I sing. Instead, worship is in the heart that lifts the song. If you think about it, worship began when I woke up this morning. My life purpose is to give God glory through everything I do. If my life does not worship Him, my songs don't either.

We want to encourage people. You are not just another kid in the youth group or the lady on the third row. God has a purpose for every life.

It's really more about the moment than it is the award. You know how trophies are, you don't really think about them after a while. It's more about the moment of being encouraged to keep doing what you're doing that keeps you going.

But it's not about having good days or bad days; it's about being his.

Jesus is not going to come join our lives. Jesus wants to become our lives.

If I look at myself when I'm getting into the [God's] Word and just drinking Him [God] in, when I get to work, I'm looking for someone to love. I'm looking for people to encourage. I'm understanding that, hey, people are people. We're all wearing skin here. We all have our moments. I've already gotten what I need from Jesus and now I can just forgive and love and encourage.

Who cares what the Bible means to me? We need to know what it means. That's where I have to allow God to redefine my thinking. He tells us in Romans 12:2 not to be conformed to this world but to be transformed by the renewal of our minds. What always gets me about this verse is he's telling believers we still need to be transformed. It means I have a saved spirit but I still think with a lost brain, and slowly but surely my mind has to be transformed. Such transformation comes but one way - by truth. By his Word.

Teenagers are passionate and they want music that speaks within their hearts. It's a big deal for students to listen to Christian music and talk about it at school. Music is a very exciting element of your life when you're love. I think it's huge.

God equates spiritual depth with obedience.

To show them who you are.

The living water passages tell us we become vessels for God to pour himself into so we can pour him into others.

Christians have huge buts, where we believe everything but [insert excuse here].

Marriages struggle because we've set our marriages up to fail by thinking that this person is going to complete me when they were never created to do that.

God hasn't called us to something in a year. We're called for the here and now. We were not made to survive today for some potential future endeavor, something that maybe he'll do through us one day.

The lights are better, safer, and start at around $20. They use less battery power. Normally you get 8 to 10 hours of battery life on a standard light. You can get 150 hours with the LED.

I think it's huge in a believer's life to have music that's pouring into their new life and not dragging them back into their old life.