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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8a5be1a | My central belief, though, is that men are made to protect the territory assigned to them and to assure that everything within that territory fulfills its God-ordained purpose. This is what manhood is designed for. This is how a man fulfills his purpose. His decision to "own" his field moves both the best that is within him and the best that God has to offer into that partnership I call Great Manhood." | Stephen Mansfield | ||
| 21e1d99 | In 2003, scientists at the University of Wisconsin reported that a pint of Guinness a day is good for the human heart. | Stephen Mansfield | ||
| 6cb44ef | You must not think of them [Hebrews 12 Cloud of Witnesses] as perfect saints who never suffered as we do. Instead you must see them as the flawed and the betrayed and the wounded who simply chose to live above the programming of their pain. | christian-living church-hurt local-church christians | Stephen Mansfield | |
| bc235c7 | The confirmation of history is that we are not called despite our wounding and betrayal; we are wounded and betrayed because we are called. And God yearns to make your pain redemptive in your life. | christian-living healing-quotes church-hurt healing | Stephen Mansfield | |
| 0ce95ee | When church becomes for us an anointed have, when the grace is flowing and all is well we become sentimental...we remake people into what we need them to be. We are not wise in our love, prudent in our commitments, knowing in our fellowship. And so the evil comes and we are first amazed and then destroyed and then knocked off our axis as if never to return. | church-hurt church-relations spiritual-maturity local-church healing sin | Stephen Mansfield | |
| 7a8f2c1 | Physical strength is never what makes a man manly. Rather, it is moral strength that identifies the true man, | Stephen Mansfield | ||
| 3c79419 | There is no such thing as perfection in a church. Instead, what you should be looking for is a covenanted body, a leadership team that has the goods for coaching you in Christ, and a place where you can invest yourself - from cleaning toilets to teaching what you know to ministering in song. | choosing-church local-church church | Stephen Mansfield | |
| d73bed7 | John Wesley drank wine, was something of an ale expert, and often made sure that his Methodist preachers were paid in one of the vital currencies of the day--rum. His brother, Charles Wesley, was known for the fine port, Madeira, and sherry he often served in his home; | Stephen Mansfield | ||
| 687c839 | When an Antarctic expedition in 1933 returned to the site of an earlier expedition in 1929, a member of the team reported that at the abandoned station "there were also four bottles of Guinness on a shelf, which, although frozen, were put to excellent use." | Stephen Mansfield | ||
| 1f10843 | It is testimony to the importance of beer in their story that the brewery was the first permanent building the Pilgrims constructed. | Stephen Mansfield | ||
| 740a847 | There are also the Roman Catholic churches that display plaques in honor of Arthur Guinness, a Protestant, for his outspoken defense of Roman Catholic rights. | Stephen Mansfield | ||
| d891447 | I am about to go the way of all the earth. So be strong and show yourself a man. | Stephen Mansfield | ||
| b34e5e0 | What kind of degenerate thinks it is manly to beat a woman--that he is somehow affirming his superior status in the world through violence against those he is intended to protect? | Stephen Mansfield | ||
| cfe293f | What kind of man breaks his vows, destroys lives, and violates the laws of God for false love and brief pleasures? | Stephen Mansfield | ||
| c7f771c | that the poisoning of souls through church hurts is killing us. | Stephen Mansfield | ||
| a141204 | The theme of the next sentence is the heart of his message: "The Almighty has His own purposes." This is what Lincoln believed now, and why he thought the war had taken the course it had. Events were not ruled by North or South--even their prayers were not fully answered, he admitted--but the war had unfolded according to the purposes of God. This because men do not contend with myth or principle or an absent sovereign, as Lincoln once beli.. | Stephen Mansfield | ||
| 7a546f0 | declare war on those parts of themselves that keep them from exceptional lives. | Stephen Mansfield | ||
| f31e0ae | By doing rather than merely studying, we create a culture. Newcomers and the young feed on that culture. They watch. They do. They, too, are changed. Our culture expands. You Americans create a system of thought. The most you ask is that people contemplate new ideas. You might ask them to give or to sometimes attend meetings, but no contagious culture is created. Nothing is offered to newcomers and the young but thoughts. So they think. The.. | Stephen Mansfield | ||
| cc7744b | behind all great achievement there lies great toil: nothing that is worth doing is done easily."41" | Stephen Mansfield | ||
| 680eace | Hard times are painful, but also redemptive--meaning that in the hand of God they accomplish good things in our lives. | Stephen Mansfield | ||
| 97165b3 | We had hoped. It is what we say on the other side, when our vision is shattered and we feel ourselves to be fools for trusting in something we couldn't even see. | Stephen Mansfield | ||
| 05e68ad | The loftiest statement of your cleansing and redemption--after all the pain you've endured--is that now you realize what God was doing and you can get on with that high calling for your life. | Stephen Mansfield | ||
| dbe61ea | You are destined for your hardships because you are destined for great works of God. | Stephen Mansfield | ||
| 8a477de | But the truth is, when it comes to emotional pain--the pain that registers inside--the greatest damage is often the thing that continues to resonate when the feeling of the pain subsides. It is that message that the pain tells us about ourselves and about the meaning of our lives. | Stephen Mansfield | ||
| 01d92f5 | If forgiveness is nothing more than a rearranging of our feelings, we have no defense against this. But if forgiveness is a formal process of sending sins and wrongs away from us and placing them upon Jesus on the cross, we have a barrier between us and the darkness that tries to come back in. | Stephen Mansfield | ||
| 07dda41 | God will not free us until we free others. | Stephen Mansfield | ||
| 2954efd | It is time to let them go. Open the cages, tell them you're sorry, forgive them as Jesus forgave you, and burn that trophy room to the ground. | Stephen Mansfield | ||
| 1ab0e0b | anagram I | David Lubar | ||
| 1695c45 | By 1831, he had determined to leave the grocery business and to begin manufacturing chocolate and cocoa. He had convinced himself that "drinking chocolate" could become an alternative to the gin and whiskey that were ravaging so many lives." | Stephen Mansfield | ||
| 585d7a9 | When I look at those I want to forgive, I strive to not see them in evil terms, but to find the compassionate narrative behind their hurtful actions against me. | Stephen Mansfield | ||
| e7783cf | It may even be that you can find absolutely nothing redeeming about the people who have wronged you. Perhaps the only hook of compassion you can find is to pity them in their sinful state. Whatever the case, if you can find even the smallest opening of compassion for their lives, that charizomai spirit of mercy and grace can flow in. Forgiveness can reign and you will be free. | Stephen Mansfield | ||
| 617059e | The Bible teaches repeatedly that we each have a destiny--a specific calling and/or purpose--that is determined in advance by God. | Stephen Mansfield | ||
| fd1375d | The very gifts God has given us, the very calling on our lives, is about investing our gifts into the lives of others in order to lift them to their purpose. | Stephen Mansfield | ||
| fec3e23 | There is no such thing as perfection on earth and certainly not in a church. | Stephen Mansfield | ||
| 061ed14 | Hear me, gentlemen: true men do things--manly things. Mere males who want to seem like men just talk. Manhood is in the doing. There | Stephen Mansfield | ||
| 99da658 | Here is the lesson: Great men and women of God are not exempt from hurt and offense. Instead, enduring the wounds of fellow Christians with mercy and grace seems to be the call of every true saint, and we should not expect it to be any different in our own lives. | Stephen Mansfield | ||
| b75560f | It is not enough that the mess is cleaned up, like a house being prepared for company. We can only be satisfied when the condition of our hearts that led to the mess in the first place is challenged, healed, and turned onto a healthy, Christlike path. | Stephen Mansfield | ||
| b4189be | we will never become the men we are called to be unless we learn the art of friendship and intentionally cultivate deep, meaningful, rowdy relationships with other men. | Stephen Mansfield | ||
| 9adbff0 | But you will always be tempted and you need to know this. The devil is trying to shape your life with wounding and offense in order to keep you from a life defined by the purposes of God. | Stephen Mansfield | ||
| 14b1405 | The more you rehearse the wrongs against you and the more you stay in that trap, the more the syringes of bitterness release their toxins into your soul. | Stephen Mansfield | ||
| 977a6b6 | The solution is to forgive, to let go of the bait in that trap and pull yourself free. | Stephen Mansfield | ||
| 4ef062e | Second, a man is meant to carry such responsibility that he will descend into exhaustion and resentment if he does not have the inner resources that come from living in connection with God. This is much the same for women, but that is the subject for another book by another author. The issue for men is, as much as they might try, they cannot do what they are assigned to do without strength and energy beyond their own. | Stephen Mansfield | ||
| 06246c6 | WE MUST DEVELOP AND MAINTAIN THE CAPACITY TO FORGIVE. HE WHO IS DEVOID OF THE POWER TO FORGIVE IS DEVOID OF THE POWER TO LOVE. THERE IS SOME GOOD IN THE WORST OF US AND SOME EVIL IN THE BEST OF US. WHEN WE DISCOVER THIS, WE ARE LESS PRONE TO HATE OUR ENEMIES." --Martin Luther King Jr., from "Loving Your Enemies," a sermon delivered at the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama," | Stephen Mansfield | ||
| 400eb70 | Because of what a man is meant to be for his family, his society, and his God, he cannot allow failure and loss to destroy him. He should live knowing that such seasons are possible, and he should have a firm grasp on the truth that will help him rebuild. | Stephen Mansfield |