*If you hear what's not being said, you'll hear the heart of the matter..." -Jonah
*I learned that just as there are untold types of injuries that all require different treatments, each person also sustains injuries to their hidden man - their mind, will & emotions. They're just as real as any physical injury, but so often people seek help for the bodily damange & ignore the needs of the heart & soul. The Spirit can no more be ignored when it sustains injury than a mutilated leg or severed finger. -Jonah
*Be cautious & wise with your choise of who to talk to, but dont let it (a secret) stay inside you for too long. It'll eat up everything good & grow stronger as you grow weaker. But when you face it through the eyes of someone you trust, you will grow stronger, & it will weaken -Jonah
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Monday, September 21, 2009
What Difference Do it Make?
*People ask “How’d that fells get that way?” See that aint the right question to be askin’ cause it might be that ain’t none a’ our business. Our business is to find out is there anything we can do to bring a change in their life. To bring opportunity. To bring hope. -Denver
*Most people on the streets know Jesus love ‘em. But they figure nobody ELSE loves ‘em BUT Jesus. Street people done heard more sermons than most preachers ever preached. Lotta good folks come ‘round the ‘hood, talking ‘bout Jesus this, Jesus that. Tellin us about Him is one thing… who gon’ stick around and SHOW us Jesus? –Denver
*Needy people don’t need no perfect people neither. When Jesus sent His disciples out, He sent Peter right along, knowin Peter had a bad temper & a potty mouth & was gon’ deny Him three times. He sent John & James even though they was full a’pride and fightin over the best seat at the table. He even sent Judas, knowin Judas was gon’ betray Him. Even though Jesus knowed all a’their sins & weakness, He sent ‘em anyways.
*Listen, if the devil ain’t messing with you, he’s already got you –Denver
*I aint got no way to read the mind a’ God, but I ‘xpect part a’His business is making it Christmas for somebody EVERY day! If all the Christians – I mean ALL of ‘em – got outta the pews on Sundays & into the streets, we’d shut the city down. We’d shut down hunger. We’d shut down lonliness. We’d shut down the notion that there is any such of a thing as a person that don’t deserve a kind word & a second chance. – Denver
*It is a blessing to the homeless when they see people who care. But to really help, you’ve got to get down in the pit with people & stay with them until they find the strength to get on your shoulders & climb out. Helping someone is when you find out how to help them move toward wholeness & then hang with them until they make a change”
*That Deborah would get cancer made no more sense than a drive-by shooting… what Denver had said three weeks earlier haunted me. “Those precious to God become important to Satan”….
*Most people on the streets know Jesus love ‘em. But they figure nobody ELSE loves ‘em BUT Jesus. Street people done heard more sermons than most preachers ever preached. Lotta good folks come ‘round the ‘hood, talking ‘bout Jesus this, Jesus that. Tellin us about Him is one thing… who gon’ stick around and SHOW us Jesus? –Denver
*Needy people don’t need no perfect people neither. When Jesus sent His disciples out, He sent Peter right along, knowin Peter had a bad temper & a potty mouth & was gon’ deny Him three times. He sent John & James even though they was full a’pride and fightin over the best seat at the table. He even sent Judas, knowin Judas was gon’ betray Him. Even though Jesus knowed all a’their sins & weakness, He sent ‘em anyways.
*Listen, if the devil ain’t messing with you, he’s already got you –Denver
*I aint got no way to read the mind a’ God, but I ‘xpect part a’His business is making it Christmas for somebody EVERY day! If all the Christians – I mean ALL of ‘em – got outta the pews on Sundays & into the streets, we’d shut the city down. We’d shut down hunger. We’d shut down lonliness. We’d shut down the notion that there is any such of a thing as a person that don’t deserve a kind word & a second chance. – Denver
*It is a blessing to the homeless when they see people who care. But to really help, you’ve got to get down in the pit with people & stay with them until they find the strength to get on your shoulders & climb out. Helping someone is when you find out how to help them move toward wholeness & then hang with them until they make a change”
*That Deborah would get cancer made no more sense than a drive-by shooting… what Denver had said three weeks earlier haunted me. “Those precious to God become important to Satan”….
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Martin Luther King Jr.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
CS Lewis
The future is something, which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
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