Quotes from James MacDonald

Proverbs 18:22 says, "He who finds a wife finds a good thing."

God calls us to have strength in our character and conduct, not simply a stiff upper lip in sorrow or a stubborn persistence during hardship. Secondarily, because the word is "passive voice," we know that the strength God demands He also provides. The strength does not come from a place inside us but a source beyond ourselves, namely, the Lord.

Of course God went after Jonah, inquiring gently, "Do you do well to be angry?" However, insane from isolation, Jonah answers remarkably, "Yes, I do well to be angry, angry enough to die." Wow!

The Scriptures were written with built-in tension between texts and its resultant theology.

The core of humanity's sin problem is not a horizontal behavior to be corrected but a Vertical relationship to be restored.

I challenge you to be finished with rationalizations and hypocrisy.

God is holy, and to see His holiness means to do it His way.

Placing evangelistic mission above the mission of God's glory is the single most destructive error in the church today and the one from which many other errors fall out. God's own glory as the priority for your church, and every church needs no reflection on our part, only obedience. Glory is not a threat to reaching lost people but is actually the most biblical and God-honoring way to get there.

Plain and simple, men need community with other men. Loving, you-before-me, dedicated relationship. If you have never had it, you don't really get it yet, and if you had that community and lost it, you know the cavity it leaves in your soul until you discover it again.

Only 9 percent of evangelicals tithe to their churches. Eight hundred new church plants survive each.

Without a complete view of sin, people can burn out in their pursuit of pleasure.

In his recent book Unexplainable, he said, "[God] wants to do the inconceivable, the uncommon, the unexpected, the remarkable, the incomprehensible, so that He—God—is the only explanation for what occurs in our lives."