Rally Around Things That Are Important

"...perhaps if we rallied around something more important, if we decided to take on truly significant challenges—like addressing poverty, pursuing racial reconciliation, defending immigrants, sharing the gospel, caring for the lonely, living simply, embodying the Kingdom—we wouldn’t have as much drama.

...Or at least our drama would be about more important things, like kids who are falling through the cracks in school, families that can’t afford to healthy food, a teenager who doesn’t have anywhere to sleep at night."

- An excerpt from Do You Have Emotional Allergies? by Rachel on her blog Rachel Held Evans

Self-Discipline... They Are Watching

"...if I do not acquire self-discipline in my own life, how will my children acquire it? They watch me. They learn from me. They are guided by me."

- A quote from My Word of the Year: Discipline by Sarah Mae on her blog Like a Warm Cup of Coffee

Let Them Fall

"Sometimes it's better to let them fall, and then pick them up."

- A quote from Sometimes Love Lets You Fall by fellow-bloger Melinda on her blog Thinking Out Loud on Purpose

Don't Resent Negative People

"It's easy to resent negative people. But what if God has a deep and important purpose for sending them—something that He intends for our good because He truly loves us."

- An excerpt from Does God Really Send Negative People Into Our Lives by Michael Hyatt on his blog Leading With Purpose

God's Existance

"Albert Einstein is reported to have said that in the form of a mathematical equation all the human brainpower combined is insufficient to comprehend the universe.

Because we cannot disprove what we cannot fully comprehend, we have to leave open the possibility of God’s existence.

The post-modern, perhaps post Christian, society we live in today, argues that truth is relative. But in reality, a believer cannot decide God into existence any more than a non-believer can decide God out of existence.

God exists, or does not exist, despite what we choose to believe. Relativism when it comes to God is . . . unscientific."

- An excerpt from Alt-Mariendorf on the blog Bullets and Butterflies