Steve DeNeff

How you treat your enemies reveals what kind of God you think exists.

During this season of Christmas, I’m reminded that the manger is a way to enter the world, not leave it.

Faith’s calling is to live between the promise made and the promise kept.

One does not have to leave God in order to wrestle with God. One can feel abandoned by God while remaining in union with God. In fact, that’s who the people of God are...

There are over 8,000 promises in the Bible... but there is one that occurs more often than all the others. Five words: “I will be with you.” Don’t underestimate those words, at least not now.

Our culture desires leaders who can stand in the storm without becoming part of the storm.

“All things new” is not something God is going to do but something He is already doing. Right now. Before our very eyes, God is at work restoring the order of things.

Until the gospel has changed me, I don’t have a testimony. I may have an argument, but not a testimony.

God changes the world by changing people in it.

The gospel is not about going to heaven after we die. It’s about heaven coming into us before we die.

The Gospel is not just a set of beliefs that Christians hand over to unbelievers. The Gospel is a divine story to be lived.

The next time you think obedience lessens your authority, remember that even God obeys.

Oftentimes when God asks something from you it’s because he wants something for you.

There is nothing you are doing now that you couldn’t do better if you meditated on scripture.

It can be very easy to trade peace for productivity.

Is it possible that we have lost our ability to speak, because we have lost our ability to hear?

Israel’s distinction was not that they had a sacred book, or a god that spoke (other religions had these). Israel’s distinction was that God’s speaks. He is the Speaking Voice, he is the Living Presence, he is the Center.

If God is not my stronghold, sooner or later, my stronghold will become my god.

We don’t confront our enemies by going after them, we confront them by backing into the presence of God.

It is one thing to admire the mind of Christ... it is something entirely different to have it.