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‘Quick Quotes’ Archive (sorted alphabetically)

  • 1, 2, 3 Talents More

    Monday, September 1st, 2008 Excerpt from “1, 2, 3 Talents More”
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  • Access into The Innermost Circle

    Thursday, August 14th, 2008

    Have you ever been on the outside of some club or something and you wish you could get on the inside? You always felt you were just a total outsider? Well, what the Holy Spirit is for you is your access to get in into the innermost, the most powerful circle there is [...]

    Excerpt from “Access into The Innermost Circle”
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  • Access to God is Through Jesus

    Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

    Jesus is the one who gives me access to the Father. If I haven’t let Jesus have access to my life, then there is no opportunity for God to do what I long for.

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  • Access to Out-of-This-World Power

    Thursday, April 29th, 2010

    What concerns me more than the lack of thought is the lack of spiritually-discerned (biblical) approaches to the problems leaders face. It is as though we have traded in our “divinely powerful” tools for implements, strategies and solutions borrowed from universities, showbiz, or Fortune 500 companies. Under the guise of two important but limited values [...]

    Excerpt from “Access to Out-of-This-World Power”

  • Acquainted with God

    Saturday, June 14th, 2008 Excerpt from “Acquainted with God”
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  • Acts and Traits

    Sunday, June 8th, 2008 Excerpt from “Acts and Traits”
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  • Adversity to Order

    Tuesday, May 1st, 2007

    Adversity to Order

    Excerpt from “Adversity to Order”

  • Affinity with Believers

    Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

    The larger the number of such sub-cultures offered to a community through pioneer churches, the greater the likelihood that previously untouched individuals or people groups will find a socio-cultural affinity with believers.

    Excerpt from “Affinity with Believers”

  • Again, and Again, and Again…

    Monday, January 4th, 2010

    My great burden is to explain Kingdom matters to people. Jesus did that His whole life. He was always thinking, “How do I explain the Kingdom of God?” He had to do it many different ways—over, and over, and over again—because the things of the kingdom are difficult to understand. Even the great apostle Paul [...]

    Excerpt from “Again, and Again, and Again…”

  • Agency of Use

    Saturday, January 26th, 2008

    The primary agency the enemy uses to bring about his evil intentions is not demons, it is children who are walking in disobedience, just as God does His work through children who are obedient.

    Excerpt from “Agency of Use”
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  • Agents of Recovery

    Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

    The following is an excerpt from “Process Leadership.”
    The Coastlands is impassioned with the idea of mobilizing mended nurturers. We want people themselves to be recovered and then learn how to turn around and become agents of recovery in the lives of other people. I love how it says in Isaiah 60:
    “The least of you will [...]

    Excerpt from “Agents of Recovery”

  • Aiming the Future

    Sunday, January 20th, 2008

    So I guess what I want to say is that in effective ministry, we’re always reminding people of their future more than their past.

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  • All is Not Lost

    Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

    The following is an excerpt from “Process Leadership.”
    …Nobody believes that the game is going to be won or lost on one play. If we don’t win on this series of downs, we’ll punt the ball away, and we’ll get it on the next series of downs. If we don’t score the touchdown on this particular [...]

    Excerpt from “All is Not Lost”

  • Altered Times and Law

    Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

    Altered Times & Law

    Excerpt from “Altered Times and Law”
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  • Ambassadors to Go!

    Thursday, July 17th, 2008 Excerpt from “Ambassadors to Go!”
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  • Apostle’s Ministry

    Thursday, April 26th, 2007

    Apostle Ministry

    Excerpt from “Apostle’s Ministry”

  • Are you Susceptible?

    Monday, July 28th, 2008

    You cannot get for yourself what God wants to give you. Dissatisfaction with the boundaries of your inheritance or the place you are in life makes you incredibly susceptible to witchcraft and divination.

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  • Attitude!

    Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

    For real estate, it’s “Location, Location, Location.” For church staff, it’s, “Attitude, Attitude, Attitude.”

    Excerpt from “Attitude!”

  • Available to God

    Thursday, February 14th, 2008

    “You’ll find in your walk with God that if you decide ahead of time this is how God has to do something, you probably won’t be available to God doing something the way He wants to do it.”

    Excerpt from “Available to God”
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  • Balancing the Natural and Spiritual Realms

    Friday, March 26th, 2010

    Most of the time, pastoring calls for more thought and more revelation. I need spiritual discernment and sensible reasoning—balancing the natural and spiritual realms. Loving God with our heart, soul, mind and strength is a call for total integration—offering our whole being, with its multifaceted components, for service to the Lord.

    Excerpt from “Balancing the Natural and Spiritual Realms”

  • Basic Premise

    Saturday, March 8th, 2008

    You will never, ever grasp effective ministry until you understand this basic premise that people as we see them now are not the way that God made them.

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  • Basket Cases

    Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

    The following is an excerpt from “Process Leadership.”
    At the Coastlands, we liked to call ourselves “the first church of basket cases in Aptos, California.” I know everybody kind of chuckles a little bit. For us this is not a real shocking thing, but is as normative as it can be.
    Everyone is a wreck, one way [...]

    Excerpt from “Basket Cases”

  • Battle of The Kingdom

    Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

    So let me remind you that the things of the Kingdom, the battle of the Kingdom of God is not won naturally.

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  • Be an Example

    Thursday, February 14th, 2008

    Be an example even when no one can see you. We are discipling people even when they aren’t around.

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  • Be Fruitful and Multiply

    Saturday, July 5th, 2008

    Be fruitful and multiply

    Excerpt from “Be Fruitful and Multiply”
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  • Be Generous

    Friday, March 21st, 2008

    When you’re generous, money becomes a non-issue.

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  • Be Strong in the Lord

    Thursday, April 5th, 2007

    Be strong in the Lord

    Excerpt from “Be Strong in the Lord”

  • Because of Relationship

    Saturday, February 9th, 2008 Excerpt from “Because of Relationship”
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  • Become Great In The Kingdom

    Tuesday, May 8th, 2007

    Become Great In The Kingdom

    Excerpt from “Become Great In The Kingdom”

  • Believing in People

    Sunday, August 24th, 2008

    We are leading a group of people who feel they have no significance, who have been battered and abused, who have been rejected, who have grown up in a culture where they are used and discarded – where they have no lasting value. And these poor people who feel like they really can’t do or [...]

    Excerpt from “Believing in People”
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