Sometimes God lets you hit rock bottom so that you will discover He is the Rock at the bottom.
Tony EvansRead
You may have an older audience in front of you holding the Bible and a younger audience holding an iPhone. You don't want to lose either audience.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the need to connect with diverse audiences regardless of their age or preferences.
Tony Evans highlights the challenge of engaging both older and younger generations simultaneously. He points out that while the older audience may be rooted in traditional values reflected in books like the Bible, the younger audience often seeks connection through modern technology like the iPhone. This signifies the importance of adapting oneβs message to resonate with different demographics.
In practice
In a seminar on faith and technology.
Sometimes God lets you hit rock bottom so that you will discover He is the Rock at the bottom.
A kingdom man is a man who visibly demonstrates the comprehensive rule of God underneath the Lordship of Jesus Christ in every area of his life.
Peace doesn't mean that you will not have problems. Peace means that your problems will not have you.
Government can run and fund programs, but it can't love, it can't show compassion, and it can't embrace. Our faith is designed to have social implications, not just heavenly ones. The spiritual and the social must be connected.
The reason so many believers are struggling is that we have voted in the past asking God to bless our plans rather than casting our votes based on seeking His agenda. We want God to sign off on our decisions rather than us following His.
Every four years, the eyes of America become riveted on the national election returns. But God's first concern during any political season is not the same as our first concern - it is not about what is happening, or going to happen, in the White House. God's first concern is what is happening, or not happening, in His house.
It used to take me all vacation to grow a new hide in place of the one they flogged off me during school term.
He had been so busy getting away from the library, he hadn't paid attention to where he was going.
Offense is not equal opportunity
The child's conquests of independence are the basic steps in what is called his 'natural development'.
I'd obviously never heard of the group, but my ignorance in literary matters is to blame for that (every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me).
During the first few months of an infant's life, its manner of taking the breast, of laying its head on the pillow, etc., becomes crystallized into imperative habits. This is why education must begin in the cradle.
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