Quotes from James MacDonald

people who have been saved by grace grow to love giving grace to others.

Criticism plugs the flow of God's blessing.

When will we see that the depravity of the human heart is not most clearly on display in the gay pride parade or at the abortion clinic? The greatest failures in human experience are not seen in the activist atheist rallying unbelief or the scorning skeptic ridiculing Jesus Christ, or the senseless wars, or baffling famines. The greatest failure in human existence is the failure of Christ-followers to "love one another earnestly from a pure heart

Prayer is the easiest thing to assume in church and the hardest thing to maintain.

We preach so that people will be better worshippers, so that the nature and story of God proclaimed will result in an amplification of what provokes glory to come down. A church's ministry extends, of course, beyond the weekend worship service, but if we fail there, nothing else can succeed. That single service in a Vertical Church is like the wood-burning furnace in a factory or warehouse.

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.

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.

God can and will wipe all that shame and sadness away if you will only repent.

Men were made for war; designed to struggle and strive to protect and provide.

We need to stop shuffling service parts randomly and set our sights on a goal, something we are moving toward in every service element.

Reality is God-centered and all human beings are worshipers, whether or not they are conscious of this reality and its implications.

Your highest loyalty after the Lord is to your family. Your first priority after God is your wife then your kids.