Top 100 James Macdonald Quotes
#1. When we fail to assist people responding to the gospel at church, we train our people to repeat that failure at home and at work.
James MacDonald
#2. John 8:44 says Satan is a liar and the father of lies. He captures and conquers men's lives through his convincing lies, often nullifying good intentions with wrongful actions that seemed manly in the moment but in the end lacked the balancing power of clarity.
James MacDonald
#3. Authors in general don't have a lot of money, and lawsuits are expensive.
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#5. Small groups are the place to push past Bible knowledge and on to life application so that we can see people's lives transform more and more into the image of Christ.
James MacDonald
#6. The nation that draws the most materials and provisions from the earth, fabricates the most, and sells the most of productions and fabrics to foreign nations, must be, and will be, the great power of the earth.
James MacDonald
#7. people who have been saved by grace grow to love giving grace to others.
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#9. Given the impossibility of not failing one another, when the Bible says, "We all stumble in many ways,"7 the only way forward in loving community with one another is forgiveness.
James MacDonald
#10. [God's] purposes are always accomplished. His enemies are always defeated. His faithful followers are always rewarded. His Son's throne will be established forever.
James MacDonald
#11. A continual diet of the Word satisfies, and it builds an appetite for more.
James MacDonald
#12. Evaluated by a single question: Do they advance our goal of the manifest presence of God in church?
James MacDonald
#13. Transcendence is a healthy dose of insignificance to a race whose root sin is pride. Transcendence cuts us all down to our proper proportion before an awesome God. That you and I are not significant is a wonderful, freeing discovery, and that's what church is for.
James MacDonald
#15. At this moment, God is watching your life and at some point in this trial, He will say enough. You don't need to falter.
James MacDonald
#16. A real encounter with the living God changes everything. First, it magnifies the Lord, and then it puts me and my ego and my sin and my burdens all in their rightful place.
James MacDonald
#17. Reality is God-centered and all human beings are worshipers, whether or not they are conscious of this reality and its implications.
James MacDonald
#18. With God, we can be satisfied and fulfilled with very little, but without Him, all that we have will always be dry and deeply disappointing.
James MacDonald
#19. Christians have a way of crouching in their own culture instead of penetrating the one they live in with the gospel. Too many migrate to a faith that elevates issue debate and substitutes a set of personal preferences for the glorious gospel.
James MacDonald
#20. Revival is renewed interest after a period of indifference or decline. He wants to wake us up, to refresh our faith - to fire us up again.
James MacDonald
#21. Attentive reading of God's Word will set you up for frequent Holy Spirit warnings as He uses Scripture to set off alarms of danger in your life. As you grow spiritually, you may discover direct "prompts" God's Spirit gives, but they will always be in harmony with what God says in His Word.
James MacDonald
#22. But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
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#23. Too often, we think of sin as self-contained, point-in-time choices with no interconnection or momentum. But sin refuses to remain contained in the moment it is conceived.
James MacDonald
#24. If you don't tell your kids/grandkids what God has done for you, don't expect their hearts to be captured by your God! Worst
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#25. Repentance is the key that unlocks the door to all that God has for us, but it is not easy.
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#26. One of the consequences of covetousness is that it destroys the capacity to discern sufficiency. It distorts our thinking to the point where: Enough is never enough.
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#27. Faith doesn't grow or deepen when we cower in secrecy. Faith strengthens as we go public.
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#28. When we ask people what they want in church instead of giving them what they were created to long for, we play in the very idolatry that church was created to dismantle.
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#29. When you come to the place where you can't do anything else, you must stand still and believe ... When you can't do anything, let God do it all.
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#30. A soul that is happy in the things of God can overcome tremendous obstacles.
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#31. Men act like men at home when they realize they will be held responsible for how well they represented God to their family.
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#32. For those who love God all things work together for good.
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#33. What you hope for determines what you live for. What you hope for determines WHO you live for. Hope misplaced can devastate you.
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#34. They're naughty, all those writers - they mess around with people. I know James Gandolfini got a bit fed up on 'The Sopranos': if he said anything in front of a writer, told them a story from his life, it could make its way into the script.
Kelly Macdonald
#35. Preachers who pride themselves on never giving a public invitation to be saved, never calling for a response of any kind, reveal not greater fidelity to the gospel but a lack of faith in its power.
James MacDonald
#36. Human sin is stubborn, but not as stubborn as the grace of God and not half as persistent, not half so ready to suffer to win its way
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#37. Jesus washing the disciples feet is the most supreme act of humility in all of God's word.
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#38. The role of biblical counselors is facilitate the discovery of a greater God awareness through spiritual eyes that look at life through scriptural lenses.
James MacDonald
#39. We are only prepared to receive and comprehend the grace of God when we have understood His infinite holiness and our incredible sinfulness.
James MacDonald
#40. I've never seen the Holy Spirit, but I've seen His powerful wind blowing through people's lives.
James MacDonald
#41. God's not afraid of a mess. He wants to do a cleaning.
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#42. Worship is the actual act of ascribing worth directly to God. Worshipful actions may do this indirectly, but when the Bible commands and commends worship as our highest expression, it is not talking about anything other than direct, intentional, Vertical outpouring of adoration.
James MacDonald
#43. You would think that the more a man knows and loves God, the deeper he gets into understanding His Word, and the further he progresses in personal holiness, the better he would be at being a watchful man, but that is sadly not the case.
James MacDonald
#44. If all you are doing is spending time with the struggling members of your church and you are not building proactively into your church's culture, and you are being shortsighted and limiting the effectiveness of your ministry.
James MacDonald
#45. The body of Christ is about doing life together, and by doing life together sin is revealed.
James MacDonald
#46. Too many times we're looking for ways to get around deep waters and dangerous fires, rather than through them. Has this ever been your experience?
James MacDonald
#47. Repentance is shockingly beautiful when we see it not as "I sinned again, I need to repent," but as "I sinned against my God again, but He is calling me back so He can lavish me with His love and forgiveness.
James MacDonald
#49. When we shift from personal purity to personal happiness, we lose biblical hope because we are not focusing on God's agenda, we are focusing on our own. God's agenda is guaranteed on our agenda is not.
James MacDonald
#50. God brings us low, even to the point of death, in order to bring us up again.
James MacDonald
#51. The counselee should be aware that you are not God. Better yet, she should be aware that you are aware that you are not God.
James MacDonald
#52. Does God love us even when our hearts are far from Him? The answer: Yes, He does!
James MacDonald
#53. I want to be a part of the grand plan. Being on board with God's objectives means I understand that this is not about me.
James MacDonald
#54. Wayne Grudem, my friend and seminary professor, put it well: "God does not have size or spatial dimensions and is present at every point of space with His whole being, yet God acts differently in different places."19
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#55. Praying is what confirms our true belief that we cannot succeed without God, and its absence confirms the exact opposite.
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#56. You'll face overwhelming odds; you'll be incredibly outnumbered. Fear would be your natural inclination. But keep in mind, God is with you.
James MacDonald
#57. I experience transcendence when something infinite reminds me I am finite.
James MacDonald
#58. And call no man your father on earth ... " No religious leader is to be called father. How clear is that? Don't call people "father" for " ... you have one Father who is in heaven" (v. 9).
James MacDonald
#59. The marquee scrolling across our minds trying to reinterpret life reads: "God-Against-Us." This becomes the dominant lens through which our flesh interprets life. We no longer give our loving Father the benefit of the doubt. Instead, we view every event as conclusive proof that God is against us.
James MacDonald
#60. Let's embrace the expectation that we will not be treated better than the early disciples when we share Christ the way they did.
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#61. An overemphasis upon imminence in preaching has banished transcendence and tended to a theology of God being technically present as an observer but effectively absent as a participant. When
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#62. More of anything other than God will never fill that longing for fulfillment He has placed within you and me.
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#63. The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?
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#64. The greatest failure in human existence is the failure of Christ-followers to "love one another earnestly from a pure heart"5 and to heed the words of Christ: "By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."6
James MacDonald
#65. Any counseling that does not pursue spiritual formation through an intimate relationship with Jesus by faith as one of its chief goals is not worthy to be called BIBLICAL counseling.
James MacDonald
#66. God's holiness ... puts everything and everyone in their rightful place.
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#67. Be loving in conflict or be loving in frustration or let love command your every interaction because love never fails.
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#68. Our prayer must be, Father, I'm waiting for You because I know You are good in what You do and in when you do it.
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#69. Every man needs a place to be open and vulnerable with brothers leaning together upon the Lord.
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#70. Whenever you are in a critical temper, it is impossible to enter into communion with God.
James MacDonald
#71. Only when we have done all we knew to do can we wait by faith for God to do what only He can do.
James MacDonald
#72. Times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord (Acts 3:20).
James MacDonald
#73. When an artist captures a mountain or an ocean on a canvas with color and we wonder where such talent could come from, he or she is declaring His glory.
James MacDonald
#74. While you can't keep fear from visiting, you can slam the door in its face. With God's promise in your hand, that's exactly what you are able to do.
James MacDonald
#75. When God promises, He's not saying, I'll try. He means, I can and I will.
James MacDonald
#76. Where is the church persevering in the priority of prayer?
James MacDonald
#77. I've learned to be careful of becoming a critic. Criticism really sours your heart.
James MacDonald
#78. Do all you can to defeat selfish shepherding in your own heart. We
James MacDonald
#79. Every obedience is not easy. This is for Jesus Christ. He deserves everything!
James MacDonald
#81. I have been studying now for about 2 years, on a rather intensive basis, the UFO problem. I have interviewed several hundred witnesses in selected cases, and I am astonished at what I have found.
James MacDonald
#82. Well, what was wrong with it?"
"We don't know," says James.
"That's a stupid rotten answer."
"Life is sometimes rotten and stupid.
Ann-Marie MacDonald
#83. Our job is to get people to Jesus Christ and to get them back to Him in profound, life-altering ways every week.
James MacDonald
#84. Watch out for the people who say that all is good between them and God but have no interest in being reconciled with the people whom their sin has injured.
James MacDonald
#87. Our hearts are wired for worship, and our worship is directly tied to our sense of hope.
James MacDonald
#88. Yet those who wait for the LORD will gain new strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles, they will run and not get tired.
James MacDonald
#89. A church with no conflict is likely a church that is manufacturing peace in a way that prohibits glory.
James MacDonald
#90. We all know the disappointments that come when we base anticipation on what we and other humans can deliver. God will never have a problem delivering!
James MacDonald
#91. If we believe God is present in our worship as He promises to be,20 then we must frame all language of worship as to Him and not merely about Him.
James MacDonald
#92. Your highest loyalty after the Lord is to your family. Your first priority after God is your wife then your kids.
James MacDonald
#93. Hunt while you can. The weather may change tomorrow.
Debra Doyle
#94. Valerie Sherwood, I said to myself, you're going to die.
Debra Doyle
#95. God will call; they won't answer. Stubbornness of the heart is a terminal sickness. There is no solution for that condition apart from repentance and God's work of grace to break the heart.
James MacDonald
#96. Faith sees the opportunity; doubt sees the obstacles. What you see is what you get!
James MacDonald
#97. Are you sure that's Val?"
"No," said Freddie. "It's Lassie in a wolf suit.
Debra Doyle
#98. Fear is the contradiction of faith. Faith says, Whatever it is, it'll be okay because of God.
James MacDonald
#99. God looked through eternity past and He saw you and He chose to reach out and redeem you by His own grace. It's hard to imagine that kind of love.
James MacDonald
#100. When revival comes to the human heart, it's a torrent, it's a cascade, it's a deluge. It's a downpour!
James MacDonald
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