Quotes from Last Week's Message

It has been quite a busy week, so I'll content myself with several quotes I used in last week's sermon. I really cannot recommend Ed Welch's book enough:

Worry reveals our allegiances. Fear and worry are not mere emotions; they are expressions of what we hold dear. They reveal the loyalties of our hearts. If we know Christ and have affirmed our allegiance to him, worry is a sign that we are trying to have it both ways. We certainly don't want to renounce our allegiance to Jesus, but we want to protect what we feel is our own. We are not so sure that the Lord can be trusted with some of these things, so we look for help elsewhere. And if there is no obvious alternate source of help, we worry.

from Running Scared by Ed Welch

If I can trust the word of a friend, why do I question the word of the God of the universe? Go figure. Sin is truly bizarre.

from Running Scared (page 111) by Ed Welch

We are so wrapped up in worry, our axieties go so deep, that a single command is not enough--a change could only take place if we were to see the world in a fundamentally new way.

Robert Tannehill