Comedy Sex God
absence of a belief in a God who would punish us for disobedience would go on to become cornerstones of my personal and professional life.
Harold S. Kushner • Nine Essential Things I've Learned About Life
I’m nervous to say what happened next, because I know how it sounds. Eleven words came to me from … dare I say God? Maybe it was my own mind finding the emergency brake, but it didn’t seem like the words were my own, since what my own mind usually comes up with sound much closer to “Stop being such a crybaby” than the ones I heard that day on the h... See more
I think the difference in my life came when I realized, after reading those Gospels, that Jesus didn’t just love me out of principle; He didn’t just love me because it was the right thing to do. Rather, there was something inside me that caused Him to love me. I think I realized that if I walked up to His campfire, He would ask me to sit down, and
... See moreDonald Miller • Blue Like Jazz
As I read this book, and observed the lives of the wonderful and wealthy people at my church (who had previously intimidated me to death), I came to the simple realization that I was insecure, they were insecure, and everyone I will ever meet is insecure as well. It was freeing beyond what I can explain. It gave me permission to take off my mask an
... See moreChip Ingram • True Spirituality
the only way forward and through, would be to die to who I had thought Christ was, die to what I thought it meant to be Christian, and actually begin to figure out what it means to me.