Quotes about Challenges

Differences in personal style can impose formidable barriers to communication.

Paul's model of parenting is distinctly redemptive, but when parents forget that moments of difficulty are moments of redemption, they stand in the way of what the Lord is doing.

No parent is able to escape the deceiving power of sin. All parents need to understand the power of spiritual blindness as they think of the task that God has called them to.

As you struggle, you must not view your marriage as bad luck, or poor planning, or as a mess that you made for yourself. No, God is right smack-dab in the middle of your struggle. He is not surprised by what you are facing today. He is up to something.

Ministry leadership is not a fortress against spiritual attack; it's the front line.

The commands, principles, and case studies of Scripture will take you only so far in your quest to figure out your life. There will be moments when you simply don't understand what is going on. In fact, you will face moments when what the God who has declared himself to be good brings into your life won't seem good. It may even seem bad, very bad.

Your life is not good because it is easy or predictable, but because the I Am has invaded your existence by his grace.

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

Often your greatest battles come before your greatest blessings.

The wilderness creates unusual pressures and challenges.

The grace factor will be revealed in three areas of your life: grace for the race; grace for the place; and grace for the case.

If we let the Bible be the Bible, on its own terms—on God's terms—we will see this in-fleshing God at work, not despite the challenges, the unevenness, and ancient strangeness of the Bible, but precisely because of these things. Perhaps not the way we would have written our sacred book, if we had been consulted, but the one that the good and wise God has allowed his people to have.