DREAMING GOD'S DREAMS

"May God grant us the grace to have faith in a future that transforms our imaginations and makes it possible for us to live for impossible possibilities, for dreams that correspond with God's."

 - John Westerhoff III

DISTURBING THE PRESENT

INTEGRITY

SERVING JESUS

Someone asked Mother Theresa, "How did God call you to serve the poor?”

She replied by saying, “I was not called to serve the poor, rather I was called to serve Jesus and he led me here.”

CRITICS

"There are two types of people in the world... Those who are doing something, and those who criticize those doing something.' - Justin Meier

FAITH AND PURPOSE

“If the blind put their hands in God’s, they find their way more surely than those who see but have not faith or purpose. ” ~ Helen Keller

FOLLOWING JESUS

“‎Those who aren't following Jesus aren't his followers. It's that simple. Followers follow, and those who don't follow aren't followers. To follow Jesus means to follow Jesus into a society where justice rules, where love shapes everything. To follow Jesus means to take up his dream and work for it.”
― Scot McKnight, One Life: Jesus Calls, We Follow

SACRIFICE

"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." - Jim Elliott, martyred in Ecuador bringing the gospel to the Auca Indians

OUR CALLING

"Jesus didn't call us to be magnificent chandeliers for people to admire. He called us to be a single bulb in a back hall to keep people from breaking their necks when they go to the bathroom in the middle of the night. He called us to make a difference in the darkness, for doing so makes us significant and gives us impact." ~ Haddon Robinson

ACTIVELY DOING GOD'S WILL

"Being a Christian is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will.” – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

OUR WORK

Holy people must stop going into church work as their natural course of action, and take up holy orders in farming, industry, law, education, banking, journalism with the same zeal previously given to evangelism or to pastoral and missionary work. 

-Dallas Willard

RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish He didn't trust me so much. ~Mother Teresa~

GOD'S PURPOSES AND OUR DREAMS

God often takes a course for accomplishing His purposes directly contrary to what our narrow views would prescribe. He brings a death upon our feelings, wishes, and prospects when He is about to give us the desire of our hearts. - John Newton

OUR PREOCCUPATION

"We are called to an everlasting preoccupation with God." - AW Tozer in That Incredible Christian