by David Phillips | Apr 5, 2011 | Quotes, Feature Articles
To insist on one’s place in the scheme of things and to live up to that place. To empower others in their reaching for some place in the scheme of things. To do these things is to make fairy tales come true. — Robert...
by David Phillips | Dec 10, 2010 | Quotes, Evangelism, Multiplication
The history of God’s people is a history of life cycles, a history of clarity about call and identity, followed by complacence, followed by collusion with the powers, followed by catastrophic loss. Contrary to being a disaster, the exilic experiences of loss and...
by David Phillips | Dec 10, 2010 | Quotes
We must find the freedom to step over our wounds and the courage to forgive those who have wounded us. The real danger is to get stuck in anger and resentment. Then we start living as “the wounded one,” always complaining that life isn’t...
by David Phillips | Dec 9, 2010 | Quotes
Leaders we admire do not place themselves at the center; they place others there. They do not seek the attention of people; they give it to others. They do not focus on satisfying their own aims and desires; they look for ways to respond to the needs and interests of...