One of the primary reasons we don't seek counsel from the wise people around us is that we already know what we are going to hear--and we just don't want to hear it.
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Andy Stanley
Charles Andrew "Andy" Stanley (born May 16, 1958) is the senior pastor of North Point Community Church, Buckhead Church, Browns Bridge Church, Gwinnett Church, Woodstock City Church, and Decatur City Church. He also founded North Point Ministries, which is a worldwide Christian organization. 2Biography Stanley received a bachelor's degree in journalism from Georgia State University and later earned a master's degree from Dallas Theological Seminary. After working for several years as Associate Pastor and Minister to Students at First Baptist Atlanta, he and five others founded North Point Community Church in 1995. The church has now grown to six campuses and over 32,000 attenders each week, making it one of the largest churches in the United States. North Point Ministries has also helped plant 20 strategic partner churches in the US and Canada. In 2010 a survey of U.S. pastors found Stanley to be the 10th most influential living preacher. Buckhead Church was featured in a 2006 article in USA Today regarding its innovative use of high-definition video in the place of a live speaker. In January 2009, Stanley was selected to be the fourth speaker at the National Prayer Service following the Presidential inauguration. In addition, Andy Stanley has been a frequent speaker at Willow Creek Association's Global Leadership Summi
Relationships are built on small, consistent deposits of time. You can't cram for what's most important. If you want to connect with your kids, you've got to be available consistently, not randomly.
Every arena of life intersects with what's going on in our hearts. Everything passes through on its way to wherever it's going. Everything.
It takes a habit to break a habit. You can pray every day for a generous heart, but until you start acting in that direction, nothing's going to change.
Peace is a fruit of the Spirit, not the byproduct of accumulated wealth.
The root of anger is the perception that something has been taken. Something is owed you, and now a debt to debtor relationship has been established.
There is an appropriate way to use your story, not as an excuse but as a testimony to God's ability to free you from the past.
Here’s a question every angry man and woman needs to consider: How long are you going to allow people you don’t even like — people who are no longer in your life, maybe even people who aren’t even alive anymore — to control your life? How long?
Here’s a question every angry man and woman needs to consider: How long are you going to allow people you don’t even like — people who are no longer in your life, maybe even people who aren’t even alive anymore — to control your life? How long?
We hurt most who we love the most.
If you don’t like the fruit that keeps cluttering up your backyard, the only real solution is to dig up the tree by the roots and eliminate the issue once and for all. If you deal with the source, you’ve dealt with the problem.
Show me an angry person and I’ll show you a hurt person.
In the shadow of my hurt, forgiveness feel like a decision to reward my enemy. But in the shadow of the cross, forgiveness is merely a gift from one undeserving soul to another.
It is when our hearts are stirred that we become most aware of what they contain.
Here's a scary thought: What if God called you to give beyond your comfort level? Would you be afraid? Would you try to explain it away or dismiss it as impractical? And in the process, would you miss out on a harvest opportunity for which God had explicitly prospered you in the first place?
If you see your brother in need, it doesn't matter if you already gave somewhere else. You should be open to the idea of God using you to meet your brother's unexpected need.
...often, stepping outside your comfort zone is not careless irresponsibility, but a necessary act of obedience.