◆ “But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!For you shut the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces.For you neither enter yourselves nor allowthose who would enter to go in.”

◆ . . . when the ache outscreams the hallelujah and hope feels out of reach,God does not hand us a formula. He gives us Himself. ◆ Listening Prayer: How

◆ The mission of the church is contained in that word [Father];the failure of the church is highlighted by that word. —N.T. Wright ◆ How Jesus Teaches Us to Pray

◆ In times like the present,[people] should utter nothing for which they would notwillingly be responsible through time and in eternity. —Abraham Lincoln ◆ When Being Right Isn’t the Same

◆ God speaks in the silence of the heart and we listen.And then we speak to God from the fullness of our heart and God listens.And this listening and this

◆ All is Thine,since from Thee all things do come. — Bernard of Clairvaux ◆ True Authority Begins in the Presence of God There’s a small line in Luke 1

◆ Christ died that I might die like him—die to any ruling power in me but the will of God. — George MacDonald ◆ What Comes Before Freedom Last month,

◆ You stiff-necked people . . .you always resist the Holy Spirit. — Acts 7:51 ◆ God Speaks After We Turn Have you ever woken up with your neck so

◆ “For the things we have to learn before we can do them,we learn by doing them.” — Aristotle ◆ Practice, Not Perfection: How God Forms Us Through the Process

◆ “A man may be occupied in the things of God andyet not be occupied with God Himself. ” — A.W. Tozer ◆ Consider Your Ways: The Difference Between Being

◆ “Christ on the cross is of no value to usapart from the Holy Spirit.” — Charles Spurgeon ◆ Pentecost and the Promise of the Spirit There are moments in

◆ Faith is the ceasing from our own worksand the resting in God’s work. — Andrew Murray ◆ The Work God Actually Asks of You There’s something in us that