What has happened to create this doubt is that a problem (such as a deep conflict or a bad experience) has been allowed to usurp God's place and become the controlling principle of life. Instead of viewing the problem from the vantage point of faith, the doubter views faith from the vantage point of the problem. Instead of faith sizing up the problem, the situation ends with the problem scaling down faith. The world of faith is upside down, and in the topsy-turvy reality of doubt, a problem has become god and God has become a problem.
We are not primarily called to do something or go somewhere; we are called to Someone. - Os Guinness
We are not primarily called to do something or go somewhere; we are called to Someone.
- Os Guinness
In our day it's worse to judge evil than to do evil. - Os Guinness
In our day it's worse to judge evil than to do evil.
Christianity is the only religion whose God bears the scars of evil. - Os Guinness
Christianity is the only religion whose God bears the scars of evil.
Either we conform our desires to the truth or we conform the truth to our desires. - Os Guinness
Either we conform our desires to the truth or we conform the truth to our desires.
Too often we forget that the great men of faith reached the heights they did only by going through the depths. - Os Guinness
Too often we forget that the great men of faith reached the heights they did only by going through the depths.
Jesus made clear that the Kingdom of God is organic and not organizational. It grows like a seed and it works like leaven: secretly, invisibly, surpr… - Os Guinness
Jesus made clear that the Kingdom of God is organic and not organizational. It grows like a seed and it works like leaven: secretly, invisibly, surpr…
We may be in the dark about what God is *doing*, but we are not in the dark about God. - Os Guinness
We may be in the dark about what God is *doing*, but we are not in the dark about God.
Freedom is not the permission to do what you like. It's the power to do what you ought. - Os Guinness
Freedom is not the permission to do what you like. It's the power to do what you ought.
American views today are weak, confused, and divided. On one side, many progressive liberals still think that we humans are essentially good and gett… - Os Guinness
American views today are weak, confused, and divided. On one side, many progressive liberals still think that we humans are essentially good and gett…
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