Quotes from Jim Berg

God knows the future. He knows how much we can take, and He knows exactly what we need. His faithfulness gives us confidence that He is ever watching over us for our good and for His own glory.

it is impossible to effectively parent from the driver's seat of a minivan.

The believer can and will say no to any wrong desires when he has said a bigger yes to Christ's will for him.

Reality (i.e., the truth) is that there is a God in heaven. Reality is that He made us and we are accountable to Him. Reality is that this God has spoken and what He says matters--eternally. Reality is that without His salvation, we are doomed to eternal torment. Reality is that God's Son, Jesus Christ, has died for the sins of the world, that He has risen again, and that whoever believes on Him is given eternal life.

The point is that all of life is "pointless"—vanity or emptiness—unless something else is involved that transcends the pointlessness.

despair is the inevitable hopelessness of life without light.

He was right. Without God at the center, it is hopeless; it is empty; and it was designed by God to be so. The theme of Ecclesiastes could be stated, "Life is supposed to taste like cardboard if you insist on eating the box!

When they despair, rather than acknowledging the poverty of their relationship with Jesus Christ, they seek to medicate the "down" feelings10 or distract themselves with activity.

How frequently do we rush through our day making decision after decision, touching lives in this way or that, with no thought of what corruption has tainted those decisions?

Dr. Bob Jones, Sr. observed, "The Devil did not tempt Adam and Eve to steal, to lie, to kill, to commit adultery; he tempted them to live independently of God.

A man who is not in his proper place of reverence for and submission to God cannot be wise.