“to be about helping people discover what they can’t get anywhere else.” — James MacDonald Discover Copy Share Image
I've learned to be careful of becoming a critic. Criticism really sours your heart. — James MacDonald Be careful Copy Share Image
“Church has to be about helping people discover what they can’t get anywhere else.” — James MacDonald Church Copy Share Image
Humility is a do thing, not a feel thing. Humility is an action, not a style. — James MacDonald Action Copy Share Image
“Do all you can to defeat selfish shepherding in your own heart. We” — James MacDonald Selfishness Copy Share Image
Competing loves are detected in the gap between saying and doing. — James MacDonald Competing Copy Share Image
It's not unlikely that God would lie that would be a matter of probability. It is impossible for God to lie. — James MacDonald Impossible Copy Share Image
“Complaining is an attitude choice that if left unchecked will wither my capacity to experience joy and genuine thankfulness.” — James MacDonald Attitude Copy Share Image
“When the people of God are not told the works of God, they lose the wonder of God, and everyone does that… — James MacDonald Copy Share Image
While you can't keep fear from visiting, you can slam the door in it's face. With God's promise in your hand, that's… — James MacDonald Able Copy Share Image
God brings tests into your life because your faith in Him--your belief that He is in control and that He is good--can… — James MacDonald Belief Copy Share Image
God looked through eternity past and He saw you and He chose to reach out and redeem you by His own grace.… — James MacDonald Eternity Copy Share Image
Praying is what confirms our true belief that we cannot succeed without God, and its absence confirms the exact opposite. — James MacDonald Absence Copy Share Image
What kind of future is in God's plan? A good one to which you can look forward. That's why you can hope. — James MacDonald God 's plan Copy Share Image
“Vertical Church teaches its people to judge every circumstance and opportunity in terms of its potential to reveal “the glory of God… — James MacDonald Glory of god Copy Share Image
“My point is that when we ask people what they want in church instead of giving them what they were created to… — James MacDonald Idolatry Copy Share Image
“The fundamental question in everything we do must be: Will this honor God? Does this display Jesus Christ? Does this make people… — James MacDonald Question Copy Share Image
When we pray, we are speaking to the One Whose eternal purpose and designs are unfolding as our present realities. In order… — James MacDonald Christ Copy Share Image
“Worship is the actual act of ascribing worth directly to God. Worshipful actions may do this indirectly, but when the Bible commands… — James MacDonald Prayer Copy Share Image
“Preachers who pride themselves on never giving a public invitation to be saved, never calling for a response of any kind, reveal… — James MacDonald Christianity Copy Share Image
When we worry, we are telling God, "You are neither trustworthy nor in control, so I need to worry and scheme as… — James MacDonald Fear Copy Share Image
Ed Welch says that all counseling is a variation on a single theme: knowing and praying for the counselee. Of all the… — James MacDonald Asks Copy Share Image
“God forgive the church of Jesus Christ for trading its birthright access to the transcendent for the pot of stew that is… — James MacDonald Forgiveness Copy Share Image
These criminals represent us. One of them recognized Jesus for who he was and received him; Jesus promised that when he died… — James MacDonald Believe Copy Share Image
“Placing evangelistic mission above the mission of God’s glory is the single most destructive error in the church today and the one… — James MacDonald Church today Copy Share Image
“Most of what is wrong in horizontal church flows from attempts to get green apples interested in Jesus. Green apples are very… — James MacDonald Copy Share Image
In a society where rationality has ruled so long, the church frequently fails to see that in forsaking the weekly pursuit of… — James MacDonald Add Copy Share Image
“true encounter with the God of the universe makes me feel gladly small, perfectly puny, and happily so, in my assigned place… — James MacDonald Feel Copy Share Image
“We must not think of God as highest in an ascending order of beings starting with the single cell, then the fish,… — James MacDonald God Copy Share Image
“When you worship, you are saying, “This one is worth more.” At the same time you are implying, “I am worth less.”… — James MacDonald New testament Copy Share Image
“The entity God created to traffic His transcendence has fallen far from its mission when it chooses instead to traffic what can… — James MacDonald Church Copy Share Image
“Most of the church landscape in my lifetime has been heavily invested in trying to do something for Jerry or Sherri or… — James MacDonald Church Copy Share Image
I don't have everything I want but I have everything I need. That's contentment. — James MacDonald Contentment Copy Share Image
The day you stop loving your people, they're not your people anymore. — James MacDonald Loving Copy Share Image
If you're wrong in the way you're right, you're wrong even if you're right. — James MacDonald Funny Copy Share Image
Gratitude is the attitude that sets the altitude for living. — James MacDonald Attitude Copy Share Image
