23 Quotes by Jeff Cook

Entering dark places and raising human beings to a new kind of life was Jesus’ primary activity.

Hope then isn’t that someday I will escape. Hope is that someday I will be transformed.

Jesus believed that God’s will being done on earth as in heaven was God’s chief priority.

It may take years of struggle and confession, battle and failure. The places in my life where I struggle with deadly sins are matters of a decade or more of focus, repentance, shame, and grace. I’ve traveled some long roads simply to lessen the depth of some of my failures and addictions – just to get to a place where I can receive fresh grace and encouragement.

Heaven wants to engulf us here and now. It is chasing us, enlivening us, beginning to grow right here in our midst. It’s as though the renewal of all things cannot wait to get started. It is peaking its head in wherever it can.