Joe Chambers

Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack a crack in everything That's how the light gets in. #Leonardcohen

Retirement is hard. josephochambers.com/2025/06/02/tak…

"The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home." — Augustine

Some of y’all need a journal. Social media ain’t it. Journals don’t talk back and invalidate your emotions. - Lecrea

Bullet Points for Pastors: :: Listening is more important than telling. :: Weeping is more important than winning. :: Staying is more important than leaving. :: Praying is more important than achieving.

"Troubled souls need a friend who will pay attention to who they are, not a project manager who will order additional busywork." Eugene Peterson

The Kingdom of God is never in trouble. - Dallas Willard

“My job is not to solve people's problems or make them happy, but to help them see the grace operating in their lives.” Eugene Peterson

Timely silence, then, is precious, for it is nothing less than the mother of wisest thoughts. Henri Nouwen

God speaks into our personal lives, if he speaks anywhere at all. And if we were not blind as a bat we could hear him. Frederick Buechner

John Calvin Martin Luther John Broadus John Piper Dallas Willard John Wesley Tim Keller John Macarthur Henri Nouwen Eugene Peterson Never wrote one word of Scripture. Their writings and theology are not infallible. Stop trying to insert your favorite into the Godhead.

I sat with my anger long enough until she told me her real name was grief. -C.S. Lewis

I am a vegetarian between meals. G. K. Chesterton

There are three kinds of men: The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves. - Will Rogers

From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken: The crownless again shall be king. -J.R.R. Tolkien

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Poets tell us what our eyes, blurred with too much gawking, and our ears dulled with too much chatter, miss around and within us. --Eugene Peterson

Has anyone checked on the pets in Springfield, Ohio recently? Are they okay now?

People will follow us into God's good future if they see his love for them in our eyes. -David Hansen #pastor