“The only biblical prosperity gospel is a posterity gospel—the promise that generation after generation will know the goodness of God through the properly stewarded abundance of God’s world.” — Andy Crouch Copy Share Image
“There is perhaps no single thing that could better help us recover Jesus’ lordship in our frantic, power-hungry world than to allow him to… — Andy Crouch Copy Share Image
“I am also practicing cello to wean myself from power and accomplishment, to place myself back in the posture of a learner, cultivator, and creator. To become a bit like a child. To detoxify from the too-ready recognition and privilege that accompany even the most modest forms of success, to become available again for something surprising and new. Just as… — Andy Crouch Copy Share
“True greatness and true power is faithful all the way down, including humbly quick to admit limitedness, sin and brokenness, and to ask for… — Andy Crouch Copy Share Image
“Stewardship means to consciously take up our cultural power, investing it intentionally among the seemingly powerless, putting our power at their disposal to enable… — Andy Crouch Copy Share Image
“The right question is whether, when we undertake the work we believe to be our vocation, we experience the joy and humility that come… — Andy Crouch Copy Share Image
“How many times have I been put at the front of the line without even knowing there was a line? How many times have… — Andy Crouch Copy Share Image
“Grace is not an exemption from failure. It is, however, what makes it possible to sustain hope in the midst of failure.” — Andy Crouch Copy Share Image
“What was missing, I've come to believe, were the two postures that are most characteristically biblical -- the two postures that have been least explored by Christians in the last century. They are found at the very beginning of the human story, according to Genesis: like our first parents, we are to be creators and cultivators. Or to put it… — Andy Crouch Copy Share
“If there is a constructive way forward for Christians in the midst of our broken but also beautiful cultures, it will require us to recover these two biblical postures of cultivation and creation. And that recovery will involve revisiting the biblical story itself, where we discover that God is more intimately and eternally concerned with culture than we have yet… — Andy Crouch Copy Share
“Grace is not a shortcut around our effort; it is the divine blessing on efforts that are undertaken in dependence and trust on God.” — Andy Crouch Copy Share Image
“A sabbathless life ends up with neither true work nor true rest, but with frantic and ineffective activity punctuated by couch-potato lethargy.” — Andy Crouch Copy Share Image
“So the best defense against porn, for every member of our family, is a full life--the kind of life that technology cannot provide on its own. This is why the most important things we will do to prevent porn from taking over our own lives and our children's lives have nothing to do with sex. A home where wisdom and… — Andy Crouch Copy Share
