Mark Driscoll
You don't need to beat yourself up in order to make God love you. Jesus already took your beating.Collection: Jesus
Everyone has something to teach you if you are humble enough to learn.Collection: Humble
You can't meet Jesus and not change. If you haven't changed, you haven't met the real Jesus.Collection: Jesus
God loves you enough to receive you as you are. He loves you too much to keep you as you are.Collection: Love You
Our identity is not in our joy, and our identity is not in our suffering. Our identity is in Christ, whether we have joy or are suffering.Collection: Joy
The Bible is not a book of principles to live by but rather a Person to live for.Collection: Book
Faith is not just what we believe internally. It's how we behave externally.Collection: Believe
Tragically, we live in a day when offense to God doesn't matter nearly as much as offense to others.Collection: Matter
Everything may not be OK but if God is with you, you will be OK.Collection: May
Study the Bible like a soldier on a mission, not a scholar on a sabbatical.Collection: Soldier
Sometimes prayer moves the hand of God, and sometimes prayer changes the heart of the person who is praying.Collection: Prayer
We're not to follow our hearts, we're to guard our hearts.Collection: Heart
Some will tell you that there are multiple worldviews. The Bible says we have only 2: the Truth and the Lie.Collection: Lying
If you're not a Christian, you're going to hell. It's not unloving to say that. it's unloving not to say that.Collection: Christian
Stop looking for the path of least resistance and start running down the path of greatest glory to God and good to others, because that's what Jesus, the Real Man, did.Collection: Running
Looking for a word from the Lord? Believe that he has already spoken, and read what he's already written.Collection: Believe
Much of spirituality today is an effort to change God to suit us. But he's not going to become more like us, we need to become more like him.Collection: Effort
A single woman should only marry a man she can follow: Ladies if you are single, be very, very careful who you date and marry. Don't just date a man who you can put up with, marry a man you can trust, you'll follow his leadership, you'll respect him, he's saved, he's godly. The last thing you want is some guy you don't trust, he's not wise, he doesn't do his homework, he's harsh, he's inconsiderate, he's immature, he's a boy, you're more his mother than you are his mate, Real danger...real danger...Collection: Wise
Fear is vision without hope.Collection: Vision
So let me tell you this, when it comes to...trying to introduce other people to Jesus. Don't get mad at them: it's not because they're stupid. It's because they're blind. Yelling louder, arguing harder, pushing firmer won't make someone who is blind see. Pray for them, speak to them, care for them.Collection: Jesus
Jesus and Paul were serious dudes. They had teeth missing. Jesus was a carpenter, Paul was in prison. These guys didn’t eat tofu dogs and bean sprouts. They didn’t play tennis. If there were trucks back in their times, they would have been doing driveway lube jobs on a Saturday afternoon. Same thing with King David. Yeah, he might have played a lyre, but he slaughtered thousands of guys.Collection: Dog
This world needs more than good works. It needs good news. Good works come out of the good news.Collection: Needs
Sin is not just action. It's life direction.Collection: Action
Past: Jesus saved us from the penalty of sin. Present: He saves us from the power of sin. Future: He will save us from the presence of sin.Collection: Jesus
Forgiveness is both a decision and a process.Collection: Decision
Spirituality, without the Holy Spirit, is demonic.Collection: Spirit
You have to laugh at yourself. Otherwise you'll waste all that great material.Collection: Laughing
I am not ashamed of the Gospel.Collection: Ashamed
Idols tend to be good things that you have turned into god things, which therefore become bad thingsCollection: Idols
Truthless times need timeless truths.Collection: Needs
If you really want to be a rebel, get a job, cut your grass, read your bible, and shut up. Because no one is doing that.Collection: Jobs
Don't believe false teaching that says you won't suffer if you really love Jesus. Jesus will end all suffering eventually, but on earth he suffered more than anyone.Collection: Jesus
The church was custom built by Jesus, and we are all works in progress. We do not expect people to get their sin in order before attending church any more than a hospital expects people to get healed before they show up.Collection: Jesus
Are you letting culture, not scripture, determine your sexuality, how you date, how you present yourself, how you engage in certain relationships with members of the opposite sex? We need to be very clear that the way we do life is different than the rest of the world.Collection: Christian
You have been told that God is a loving, gracious, merciful, kind, compassionate, wonderful, and good sky fairy who runs a day care in the sky and has a bucket of suckers for everyone because we're all good people. That is a lie... God looks down and says 'I hate you, you are my enemy, and I will crush you,' and we say that is deserved, right and just, and then God says 'Because of Jesus I will love you and forgive you.' This is a miracle.Collection: Crush
Anxiety is not to be managed it is a sin that needs to be repented ofCollection: Anxiety
While this may look loving, when we struggle with an idol of dependence, we’re in fact not loving people as much as we’re using them to fulfill our need to belong, be liked, and be desired. This explains why some friends and family members can be so demanding, smothering, and needy. It also explains why we’re so easily inflated by praise and deflated by criticism. It’s as if others have the ability to determine our identity for that day based on a word or even a glanceCollection: Struggle
You know what I find amazing is within Christianity it is not uncommon to find [married] people who don't have sexual intimacy, don't have emotional intimacy, don't have spiritual intimacy, don't pray together, don't do their life together, don't put their schedules together, don't put their budgets together, but they don't get divorced. So they can pat themselves on the back and say, 'We're good Christians.' They're divorced in everything but the paperwork.Collection: Christian
Marriage includes a spouse, and often children. But the goal, center, and purpose of marriage is not self, spouse, or children. The ultimate goal of marriage and family is the glory of God. Only when marriage and family exist for God's glory - and not to serve as replacement idols - are we able to truly love and be loved. Remember, neither your child nor your husband (or wife) should be who you worship, but instead who you worship with.Collection: Love
My desire as a Christian pastor is to see churches raised up as communities of grace ruled by Jesus and led by his gloriously masculine men who work their jobs, eat their meat, drink their beer, romance their wives, study their Bible, and raise their kids in glory and joyCollection: Christian
On the Sabbath day, we are remembering that my relationship with God did not begin with what I've done, it is not sustained by what I do, and it is not guaranteed to the end by my effort or work. I'm saved from beginning to end by Jesus' work.Collection: Jesus
I know who made the environment and he's coming back and going to burn it all up. So yes, I drive an SUV.Collection: Suvs
Faith only grows through suffering.Collection: Faith
Don't cohabitate. Don't fornicate. Don't look at pornography. Don't create a standard of beauty. Have your spouse be your standard of beauty. This is one of the great devastating effects of pornography: you lust after people and compare your spouse to them. It's impossible to be satisfied in your marriage if you don't have a standard that is biblical; that standard is always your spouse.Collection: Christian
...Seattle has unleashed this weird phenomenon on the world called the coffee shop. And the coffee shop, thanks to Starbucks, is the place where socially isolated, lonely, needy people gather together to ignore one another.Collection: Lonely
God picked a junior high girl [to be Jesus' mother]. Jesus was raised by a woman who today, we wouldn't even let her lead a bible study at a high school. But she could raise God.Collection: Girl
One of the most astonishing things about Jesus is that as God he actually chose to come into our fallen, sick, twisted, unjust, evil, cruel, painful world and be with us to suffer like us and for us. Meanwhile, we spend most of our time trying to figure out how to avoid the pain and evil of this world while reading dumb books about the rapture just hoping to get out.Collection: Jesus
I cannot worship the hippie, diaper, halo Christ because I cannot worship a guy I can beat up.Collection: Hippie
There is a pile of dead bodies behind the Mars Hill bus, and by God's grace, it'll be a mountain by the time we're done.Collection: Grace