“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“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”
James MacDonald“Whether you realize it or not, your ongoing battle with unbelief drives all your sinful thoughts, emotions, desires, and actions.”
James MacDonald“All the stories and poems and letters and oracles and wisdom verses of God's Word, like individual instruments in a great orchestra, serve THE WHOLE story.”
James MacDonald“What you hope for determines what you live for. What you hope for determines WHO you live for. Hope misplaced can devastate you.”
James MacDonald“In counseling, we don't simply help people to change one thought; we help people to understand the pattern of their thinking – their mindsets.”
James MacDonald“Pride rises above and against the knowledge of God, acting as if He is unworthy to be retained in our thoughts.”
James MacDonald“I experience transcendence when something infinite reminds me I am finite.”
James MacDonald, Vertical Church: What Every Heart Longs for. What Every Church Can Be.“Church leaders raised on rationalism lead ministries where the supernatural, the Vertical, is suppressed and where God Himself is at best an observer and certainly seldom, if ever, and obvious participant in church.”
James MacDonald, Vertical Church: What Every Heart Longs for. What Every Church Can Be.“Let God Himself be the main attraction at church again, and let us be tireless in our insistence that church is for God, about God, through God, and to the glory of His great Son.”
James MacDonald, Vertical Church: What Every Heart Longs for. What Every Church Can Be.“In a society where rationality has ruled so long, the church frequently fails to see that in forsaking the weekly pursuit of the transcendent, we have given up the only ground that was uniquely ours in this world. In attempting to make the church something that can attract and add value to secular mind-sets, we have turned our backs on our one true proposition - transcendence.”
James MacDonald, Vertical Church: What Every Heart Longs for. What Every Church Can Be.