The meat is on the streets!

The meet is on the streets too!

Get out there tonight!!

You can change a behaviour even if your attitude doesn’t change.

Try smiling at a random older person on the street.

Maybe that change in behaviour will provoke a change in attitude.

We can learn to thrive despite receiving more criticism than praise.

We serve an audience of one.

Give up on self-sufficiency.

Want to love better?

Practice forgiveness.

Die empty: leave nothing left in your tank as you serve God.

There is only one Being Who can satisfy the last aching abyss of the human heart, and that is the Lord Jesus Christ. OChambers

Say 'NO' to cynicism.

2 Corinthians 4:16-18 MSG
So we’re not giving up. How could we! Even though on the outside it often looks like things are falling apart on us, on the inside, where God is making new life, not a day goes by without his unfolding grace. These hard times are small potatoes compared to the coming good times, the lavish celebration prepared for us. There’s far more here than meets the eye. The things we see now are here today, gone tomorrow. But the things we can’t see now will last forever.

There is a difference between believing something is beneficial and opening up your heart, mind and life to let that beneficial thing in. GMorin

If you do not believe God loves you, you will never be able to love God.

You are not what you do - rather you do what you are.

The kingdom of God is here and now & that means it’s not somewhere else and later.

There is no greater drama in human record than the sight of a few Christians scorned or oppressed by a succession of emperors, bearing all trials by a fierce tenacity, multiplying quietly, building order while their enemies generated chaos, fighting the sword with the Word, brutality with hope, and at last defeating the strongest state that history has ever know. Caesar and Christ had met in the arena and Christ had won. WDurant

Give a man a fish & he eats for a day; teach a man to fish & you lose all your leverage.

No one grows without testing.

God's will for us is a purpose rather than a plan.

Thanksliving

Constantly recognizing the goodness of God.

God help us to be grateful for our blessings,

Never to be guilty of the sin of ingratitude, & to instill this same gratitude into the lives of our children. ETBenson

Only those who have been broken understand what it’s like to be broken.

How many people do you know who really have your best interests at heart?

Humility is the mother of giants.

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak. GKChesterton

Is there a difference between your needs & your wants?

Love is not easily offended.

Be present to the events of your life

Make your requests known to God.

Do you rely on prayer or adrenaline?

Do you follow hype or the Holy Spirit?

The Holy Spirit is the source and motor of renewal in the Church.

Sports is one of our greatest teachers. It teaches that when things get hard - we’ll work harder. It teaches that our actions determine how we will be remembered. And it teaches us to never give up.

The discernment question:

What is God doing here and how do & how do I get on board with that?!

Live as though the truth were true.

With God on our side like this, how can we lose? If God didn’t hesitate to put everything on the line for us, embracing our condition and exposing himself to the worst by sending his own Son, is there anything else he wouldn’t gladly and freely do for us? And who would dare tangle with God by messing with one of God’s chosen? Who would dare even to point a finger? The One who died for us—who was raised to life for us!—is in the presence of God at this very moment sticking up for us. Do you think anyone is going to be able to drive a wedge between us and Christ’s love for us? There is no way! Not trouble, not hard times, not hatred, not hunger, not homelessness, not bullying threats, not backstabbing, not even the worst sins listed in Scripture:

They kill us in cold blood because they hate you.
We’re sitting ducks; they pick us off one by one.
None of this fazes us because Jesus loves us. I’m absolutely convinced that nothing—nothing living or dead, angelic or demonic, today or tomorrow, high or low, thinkable or unthinkable—absolutely nothing can get between us and God’s love because of the way that Jesus our Master has embraced us.