184 Quotes by James MacDonald

When we ask people what they want in church instead of giving them what they were created to long for, we play in the very idolatry that church was created to dismantle.

What kind of future is in God’s plan? A good one to which you can look forward. That’s why you can hope.

It’s not unlikely that God would lie that would be a matter of probability. It is impossible for God to lie.

Repentance is shockingly beautiful when we see it not as “I sinned again, I need to repent,” but as “I sinned against my God again, but He is calling me back so He can lavish me with His love and forgiveness.

If all you are doing is spending time with the struggling members of your church and you are not building proactively into your church’s culture, and you are being shortsighted and limiting the effectiveness of your ministry.

This fight is not going to be over in 10 minutes or 10 weeks; there’s no quick solution. If you think it’s taking too long, remember, God is with you.

When we shift from personal purity to personal happiness, we lose biblical hope because we are not focusing on God’s agenda, we are focusing on our own. God’s agenda is guaranteed on our agenda is not.

Beware of begging God for things you don’t have to have.

Yet those who wait for the LORD will gain new strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles, they will run and not get tired.