“Humanistic propaganda screams at us everywhere we go. “You deserve better.” “There’s no one like you.” “Stand up for yourself.” And after a while we start believing the mantra. The most influential culture-shaping document in American history is the Declaration… — John Mark Comer Copy Share Image
“In his commencement address at Kenyon College, the novelist and social critic David Foster Wallace eloquently said, “In the day-to-day trenches of adult life,… — John Mark Comer Copy Share Image
“Often what we believe about God says more about us than it does about God. Our theology is like a mirror to the soul.… — John Mark Comer Copy Share Image
“Jesus’ life is the example for how to love. It’s that easy. And that difficult.” — John Mark Comer Copy Share Image
“when God describes himself, he doesn’t start with how powerful he is or how he knows everything there is to know or how he’s been around since before time and space and there’s no one else like him in the universe. That’s all true, but apparently, to God, it’s not the most important thing. When God describes himself, he starts… — John Mark Comer Copy Share
“I have two sons. Jude is five, with dark, curly hair. He looks just like his mom. Moses is two, with bright eyes and a wide smile. I love watching my boys play together. They are never anxious. Never depressed. But every once in a while, they wake up in the middle of the night scared. Sometimes it’s a bad… — John Mark Comer Copy Share
“Here’s how you know if you’ve created God in your own image: he agrees with you on everything.” — John Mark Comer Copy Share Image
“When we say that God is faithful, we don’t mean you’ll never experience suffering. A lot of people—in particular, Americans—misinterpret God’s faithfulness to mean some kind of promise to give us life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. So when tragedy strikes or the economy goes south or the child tests positive or we don’t find a spouse by thirty,… — John Mark Comer Copy Share
“Scripture is first and foremost a story. And it’s a story about God. We want to make it a story about us—about how to get ahead in life or have great sex or up our portfolio or just be happy. And there are all sorts of “success principles” in the Bible, but honestly, that’s just not what the story is… — John Mark Comer Copy Share
“Who are you following? Everybody is following somebody -or at least someone. Put another way, we’re all disciples. The question isn’t, Am I a… — John Mark Comer Copy Share Image
“We were set up to love. To absorb the love of God into our bloodstream and then to share it with another human being.” — John Mark Comer Copy Share Image
“Every thought in your mind needs to be filtered. If you are going to survive this war, you need to be a domineering, controlling, micro-managing tyrant when it comes to your thought life. Any and all thoughts outside of God’s Word, you take captive, shut up, and expel. You give those thoughts no time. No mental real estate. No free… — John Mark Comer Copy Share
“Can you imagine what it would be like to stand in front of the Creator? The problem is that we fear all the wrong… — John Mark Comer Copy Share Image
