Quotes from Timothy S. Lane

Ultimately, my real problem is a worship disorder.

Your Thorny, sinful responses to life grow out of a heart that has defected to worship something else.

We tend to believe that the sin that surrounds us is more dangerous than the sin that resides inside us.

must look at you with the eyes of David in Psalm 139:

God will not quit until every bit of his work is complete in each of his children. We can have courage and hope in any situation. God's dream for us will come true.

What sets the course of a person's life are the ways he responds to the little moments. The character developed in a thousand little moments is what you carry into the big, important moments.

Are you doing all you can to make that mechanical person more relational?

Be honest: have you ever tried to recreate someone in your own likeness?

Romans 1:25 indicates that idolatry is often the result of taking good things in creation and making them ultimate things. They usurp the supreme place that only the Creator should have in our hearts and lives.

As we live with each other in the middle of the already and the not yet, we need more than elevated emotion and accurate understanding. We need eyes to see this one amazing reality: we are Christ's and he is ours. We need to see that it is spiritually impossible for us to ever be alone. His amazing resources of grace are constantly at our disposal.

If I am going to love you as I should, I must worship God as Sovereign

much of the bad communication, needless conflict, and constant frustration stem from our responses to the ways the other person is different from us.

Notice how much Israel's response to hardship maps onto ours. We face hard things and we complain about things as mundane as a menu. Before long, our complaining becomes an assessment of blame. Then the blaming goes vertical as it questions God's wisdom and goodness. We, too, are in the wilderness of a fallen world. We have not yet entered the Promised Land of eternity, so we face hardships like Israel did.

Often in our blindness, we take on our problems as identities. While divorce, depression, and single parenthood are significant human experiences, they are not identities. Our work is not our identity, though it is an important part of how God intends us to live. For too many of us, our sense of identity is more rooted in our performance than it is in God's grace.

Are you frustrated with someone in your life? Have you been trying to reshape her to fit into your personal preferences?

To love you as I should, I must worship God as Savior

If you are a believer, you are in the process of being remade to reflect the character of Jesus himself. And your Lord is employing every circumstance and relationship in your life to accomplish that goal.

sin sneaks up on us over time.

In short, we are called to help each other see the unseen reality of our active, present, and personal God.

Your everyday communication influences the shape, quality, and direction of your relationships.

God's work is driven by an agenda so much grander than simply making our lives better. He wants to remake us into his likeness. And that likeness can be seen in Jesus.

People need to see that the gospel belongs in their workplace, their kitchen, their school, their bedroom, their backyard, and their van. They need to see the way the gospel makes a connection between what they are doing and what God is doing.

Brian and Kara look a lot like us. Like them, we forget that it is in the little moments that spiritual battles are lost and won.

Language is not a human invention to be used in whatever way serves our interests. If God is the first speaker, then language is his creation. This means that our ability to speak was given to us by the Creator and it exists for his glory.