{"quotes":[{"text":"Persecution for Christians is not a possibility, it's a promise, it's not a maybe, it's a surely! Following Jesus can mean finding the trouble you've been looking for!","author":"Kingsley Opuwari Manuel","tags":["christianity","church","discipleship","following-jesus","missions","persecution","persecution-of-christians","sermons","spiritual"],"id":47995,"author_id":"Kingsley+Opuwari+Manuel"},{"text":"Words matter, but what matters more than words is forgiveness and compassion.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["christ","closure","compassion","forgiveness","letting-go","love","reaching-out","rescuers","sermons","understanding"],"id":78598,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Many use the word “Kingdom” flippantly. Even though we sing about it in our praise songs, we talk about it in our sermons, yet we seem to still not understand its reality in our daily lives.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["about","daily","even","flippantly","it","kingdom","may","our","praise","reality","seem","sermons","sing","songs","still","talk","though","use","we","word","yet"],"id":106262,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"When you lower the definition of success to such a level that any person can reach it, you don’t teach people to have big dreams; instead you inspirit mediocrity and nurture people’s inadequacies.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["achievement","apathy","challenging-people","dreaming","high-goals","high-standards","inspiring-people","leadership","mediocrity","pastors","popularity-through-pandering","preaching-for-a-paycheck","raising-the-bar","sermons","success"],"id":113122,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"You and I read the same books and hear the same sermons and we come away with different messages. That has to be evidence of some serious problem, right?","author":"Dave Eggers","tags":["books","messages","problem","sermons"],"id":117580,"author_id":"Dave+Eggers"},{"text":"I have found so many angels trapped inside undisputed jargon that I find myself digging at the words, in order to release them, from the books that unfairly captured their soul.","author":"Shannon L. 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Alder","tags":["adhd","adventures","adversity","being-honorable","commandments","convenant","destinations","disorders","god-s-plan","gratitude","guardian-angel-forever","honor-your-wife","husband","letting-go","listen","marriage-tips","pastor","positive-activities","positive-stimulus","positive-thinking","red-path","relationships","right-path","see","sermons","spouse","stay-postive","stayingpositiveu-com","stimulus-seeking","temptations","the-past","truth","vibrant-marriage","wellness","wife"],"id":127598,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"The most spiritual people I’ve ever met were not “givers” they were communicators. You don’t give people crumbs. You give them the whole piece of bread when that is what they are asking for, in order to be healed. Christ was never about hiding behind a Facebook page, an email, a prayer circle, a bible, or a church. He was about talking, listening and healing-- face to face. He walked among sinners and ate with them. He devoted his time to people that were brokenhearted, difficult to like and fake as the religious beliefs they clung to. So, why is it that so many people profess to believe in Christ, yet they have forgotten what real love is----communicating?","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["antisocial","beyond-blind-faith","beyond-prayers","christlike","christs-mission","churches","communicating","communicators","curteousy","decency","dialog","direct-contact","facebook","failing-members","failing-service","failing-society","false-teachings","internet","lack-of-etiquette","love-of-christ","not-helpful","pastors","poor-service","religion","respect","respectful","sermons","spiritual-people","spirituality","true-kindness","true-loving","web"],"id":141503,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"The irony of rule followers is they often quote a lot of people that do not follow as many rules as they do.","author":"Shannon L. 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