The Gathering

“Anxiety often feels like good parenting.” @sissygoff #gath2023

Fred's Thursday Blog: “Of course it’s hard. If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. It’s the hard that makes it great.” bit.ly/3Px0Mmt

Fred's Thursday Blog: “The challenge for the church is reaching people who are accustomed to being alone for much of their lives." bit.ly/3U5EZ6O

Fred's Thursday Blog: “Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.” bit.ly/3dQHqdA

“If your life in the political square is not marked by humility then you’re for sure getting it wrong.” @BillHaslam #gath2022

“Many of the things we care about are being ignored because we haven’t sit and thought about how we are going to communicate it.” @donaldmiller #gath2022

“When we love somebody we think about how we communicate with them because the message is so important.” @donaldmiller #gath2022

“You can build a very large audience with fear and anger. But you cannot build disciples that way.” @SkyeJethani #gath2022

“Any type of pain or suffering we experience people tend to lead with advice. But what it does is it puts a distance between them and us.”@dianagruver #gath2022

“Pain forces you to pay attention and go up against the most important things in life.” @philipyancey #gath2022

“It’s more likely that you steward well failure and suffering than those who steward success.” @philipyancey #gath2022

“Not everyone who claims to speak for God does so.” @philipyancey #gath2022

“We are prisoners of Hope and we build in perilous times…the gospel will always have the last word.” @PastorsSalguero #Gath2022

Fred's Thursday Blog: What do we do when there is no longer any shred of remorse or regret? bit.ly/3C4pd5P

Fred's Thursday Blog: "Why had we not done this before? Why had we waited so long?" bit.ly/3Ae2bsF

Fred's Thursday Blog: "Solomon sabotaged the nation’s future by dismantling their moral core. It was not simply personal idolatry." bit.ly/3NhbmeP

Be sure to check out @scottsauls new book "Beautiful People Don't Just Happen." Scott was able to join us at The Gathering in San Diego as our Bible teacher a few years ago and we are so grateful for his thoughtful writing and teaching. amzn.to/3xY4sqe

Fred's Thursday Blog: "The course of Western history shifted in that moment. It could have gone one way but it went another." bit.ly/3n0lAoR

Fred's Thursday Blog: "A weasel doesn't know he's a weasel. He just does what works to get food." bit.ly/3aq23LS

Congrats to @RoyGoble on the release of "Junkyard Wisdom Rebuilt" today! In the words of @fred2smi, "Roy's book takes us into the holy grime, the tensions of wealth and poverty, and the truly rich life that comes from not forgetting the poor." amzn.to/3x3dNvo