Quotes from James MacDonald

God's Word doesn't change, the message doesn't shift. It can't be compromised in any way. It's where we stand firm.

Sin does not remain a contented servant; it seeks to seize and master its participants.

Suffering always reveal idols of the heart.

The body of Christ is about doing life together, and by doing life together sin is revealed.

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.

Satan's kryptonite is separation through slander. He slanders God to us and us to God.

Praying is what confirms our true belief that we cannot succeed without God, and its absence confirms the exact opposite.

This is God's world, so everything, even if it intends to efface God, bears witness to God — understood and interpreted through biblical eyeglasses.

We must rip the foundations out from under all the bastions of human reasoning that say, "I don't need God!" We must demolish every non-God story of life. We must pulverize every God-is-not-good life narrative.

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!

God forgive the church of Jesus Christ for trading its birthright access to the transcendent for the pot of stew that is horizontal helpfulness. How shortsighted and human centered. The outcome of this disaster is that we have created a Creator in our own image who weeps, cares, and longs to help, but in the end we doubt He can because we have made Him so much like ourselves. In making God our buddy, we find Him nice for cuddling but not much help when the hurricane comes.

Counseling is ultimately not about the counselee or the counselor, but about the Divine Counselor.