“For believers in Christ, affliction often has a softening effect on the heart. This is why cancer patients are posting uplifting thoughts in my Facebook newsfeed and teenagers are complaining about their phones not working right. Suffering is when life… — Jared C. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time in our not-so-distant past, experts predicted that with the rapidly increasing advances in technology, Americans would have a shorter workweek and so much time on their hands for recreation that they wouldn’t know how to fill it. Well, we figured it out. We filled it up with more work and more busyness. The microwave doesn’t create… — Jared C. Wilson Copy Share
“For believers in Christ, affliction often has a softening effect on the heart. This is why cancer patients are posting uplifting thoughts in my… — Jared C. Wilson Copy Share Image
“A good soldier ponders the Word of God; he mulls it over, chews on it, and eats it so that he will bleed it… — Jared C. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Within the pages and pages of crazed ruminations documented in large fonts, all caps, and eye-scorching neons, he found only a few articles of… — Jared C. Wilson Copy Share Image
“But really, my ability to exercise oversight willingly flows from my vision. No, not a vision for an “awesomely bold” church—at least, not at… — Jared C. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Dallas Willard explains: The world has succeeded in opposing intelligence to goodness. . . . And today any attempt to combine spirituality or moral purity with great intelligence causes widespread pangs of “cognitive dissonance.” [As with Jesus,] Mother Teresa . . . is thought of as . . . nice, of course, but not really smart. “Smart” means good at managing how life “really” is.” — Jared C. Wilson Copy Share
“We forget that the kingdom does not come through political plotting but through the proclamation of the gospel. We stretch our branches to the… — Jared C. Wilson Copy Share Image
“The way some people read the parables reminds me of Aesop's Fables. And the way others read them reminds me of the way some… — Jared C. Wilson Copy Share Image
“The gospel of Jesus Christ solves the innate problem we have of “glory greed.” We are, every one of us from birth, incompetent thieves of the glory that belongs only to God. We know in our insidest insides that we fall short of his glory, and so we are constantly clawing and scratching to make up that difference in some… — Jared C. Wilson Copy Share
“The frightening thing is that, to enter hell, all one has to do is nothing.” — Jared C. Wilson Copy Share Image
