Just think about it: God wanted to communicate with you in the twenty-first century -and he wrote His message in a book.
Howard G. HendricksIt's essential to growth. It's essential to maturity. It's essential for equipping you, training you, so that you might be an available, clean, sharp instrument in His hands to accomplish His purposes.
Howard G. HendricksThere's an old saying that nothing good happens fast. I don't know if that's altogether true, but it does have some bearing on Bible study.
Howard G. HendricksThe Word of God was not written to satisfy our curiosity; it was written to # change our lives.
Howard G. HendricksYou can control your choices but you can't control the outcome of those choices.
Howard G. HendricksNever do anything for a student that he he is capable of doing for himself. If you do you, you'll make him an educational cripple...a pedagogical paraplegic.
Howard G. HendricksIf you are not thinking correctly, you are not living correctly. What you believe will determine how you behave.
Howard G. HendricksThat's the way to come to the Word of God. Read it as though it were His love letter to you.
Howard G. HendricksSo it is with scripture. The word of God is there, able to transform your life. But you must probe for it. You have to penetrate the surface with more than just a cursory glance.
Howard G. HendricksThe Bible was written not to satisfy your curiosity but to help you conform to Christ's image. Not to make you a smarter sinner but to make you like the Saviour. Not to fill your head with a collection of biblicalfacts but to transform your life.
Howard G. HendricksThe reason God can't use you more than He wants to may well be that you are not prepared.
Howard G. HendricksMy great concern for you in life is not that you will fail, but that you will succeed in doing the wrong things.
Howard G. HendricksIt is not about where you are but in what direction you're moving. God is into character, not credentials.
Howard G. HendricksIf you leave the church service thinking about how good the pastor was, he has missed the mark. If you leave consumed with Christ, the pastor has been used by the Lord.
Howard G. HendricksThere was no identity crisis in the life of Jesus Christ. He knew who He was. He knew where He had come from, and why he was here. And he knew where He was going. And when you are that liberated, then you can serve.
Howard G. HendricksThe Bible was written not to satisfy your curiosity but to help you conform to Christ's image.
Howard G. HendricksThe genius of the Word of God is that it has staying power; it can stand up to repeated exposure. In fact, that's why it is unlike any other book. You may be an expert in a given field. If you read a book in that field two or three times you've got it. But that's never true of the Bible. Read it over and over again, and you'll see things that you've never seen before.
Howard G. HendricksIn the spiritual realm, the opposite of ignorance is not knowledge, it's obedience.
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