Here are some small quotes that I want to remember from today.

Following Jesus is like a dice game. You put everything on one number and roll your dice.  That number is Jesus. If you are right, you've won it all. If it is wrong, you've lost everything.  If someone looked at your life, would you be all in?  --Bruce Randall

We are terrible friends to Jesus, but he is a wonderful friend to sinners. 
He suffered at the hands of his friends for his friends, because of His love. 

Are you glad the Bible records that Peter denied Jesus? I am. it gives me hope. This Peter, who Jesus said to "feed my sheep" to "follow me" and "upon this rock I will build my church". This Peter was a messy man, and we are messy as well. --pastor Jeremy


Also, regarding the love of God:

We each have our unmet needs. and we carry them around all day long like an empty cup. In one way or another we hold out that cup to the people in our lives and say, "Can someone please fill this?  Even a tablespoon would help!"

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How do we "abide" in the love of God"?  We dwell no further from His side than the place we are most keenly aware of His great affection. Was it not the disciple who reclined against Christ Jesus who saw himself as the "beloved disciple?"? Place your year against the Savior so that when troubled times come, you may not know what will befall you, but you can hear the steady pulse of the boundless love of Him who holds you. -- Beth Moore


“The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet." - Frederick Buechner