Joni Erickson Tada, on worrying
“I want to stay in the habit of ‘glancing’ at my problems and ‘gazing’ at my Lord.”
I love this quote–and I love the circuitous route it took to get to me. I got it from Vitamin Z who got it from Josh Harris who got it from a tweet by Randy Alcorn.
Stephen Altrogge, on information and technology:
“There’s only one Word that really matters: God’s Word. We have it. Let’s never let the mass of information available push away from the only information of eternal significance.”
via Vitamin Z
Brett McCracken, on relevance:
“Everyone’s got an idea of what Christianity should be (Missional! Emergent! Conservative! Progressive! Post-colonial!…), but part of what I argue in Hipster Christianity is that we need to cool it a bit on the whole “how can we change Christianity to be more current/relevant” thing. We need to instead focus our attention on being a biblical, gospel-centered people whose attractiveness to the world is the result of the Spirit’s edifying work within us, not a result of our Tru Religion jeans, $600,000 sound system, or tasty shade-grown coffee served in the vestibule.”
Read more at McCracken’s blog.
My thoughts:
It’s so important that we fix our eyes on what’s really important: Jesus Christ, and His gospel as revealed in His word. Without that, we’re lost.
Collect more quotes from throughout the week with Barbara H’s meme “The Week in Words”.
All three quotes are excellent! I especially like the second one… God’s word IS supreme above all other words.
I just found out that Joni has breast cancer… did you know? All the more amazing then is this quote of hers.
Blessings!
e-Mom @ Chrysalis
Those are all really great. And in some ways I hate to say just that because it seems like a shallow, drive-by comment, but I can’t really add to them — they are all really great and I appreciate the wisdom in each one and the reminder to keep my eyes on Christ in any circumstance.