jack’s buzz
![Pearls picked up from conversations, books, and conferences. Some are mine, and I can’t remember where I got the spark, sorry.
Love God. Love people. Make disciples (Jesus).
The one who sows much reaps much (Paul).
Never give the devil a foothold (Paul).
There's a freedom you begin to feel the closer you get to Austin. (Willie Nelson)
The local church, when it’s working, is the hope of the world (Bill Hybels).
You’re going to find this day a lot easier if you simply accept what is, instead of trying to fit it into your preconceived notions. (William Young).
People do what makes sense [to them at the time] (Harold Bullock).
Any of us, at any given moment, is capable of being a great disappointment to the Father (Munn).
Your system is perfectly designed to achieve the results you’re getting (source disputed, either Frederick Taylor or W. Edwards Deming).
Lots of different churches for lots of different people.
Yeah, it’s just stuff, but it’s our stuff (anonymous prof’s wife after Hurricane Katrina wiped out their belongings).
Sometimes God gives you a great, juicy, fruitful word, and sometimes it’s just dry corn flakes (Rebecca Bundick).
If you bring people to Jesus, Jesus will bring people to you.
They cannot respond to the Gospel unless you speak their language (David Garrison).
God has a wonderful plan for your life, and anyone who tells you what it is probably lies about other things too.
Change is what you dig for when there’s nothing left; it’s what buys you a treat when your pocket is empty.
You get what you reward.
The best way to build a river is with multiple streams (Peter Drucker).
The Bible gives us boundaries between which God grants us freedom to use our imagination[s] (T. B. Maston).
The Bible’s not hard to understand, it’s easy to understand. It’s just that sometimes I don’t want to understand (Zig Ziglar).
Being called Dr. all the time is deceptively seductive. My name is Jack, I’m from Texas, and I shoot straight--don’t you think I have enough of an advantage without the “Dr.” bit?
Everyone speaks the same language. It’s the language of pain. When you listen, people learn to trust you with their pain, and Jesus will heal it.
You do not have a money problem, you have an idea problem (Willie Kocurek).
It’s always too soon to quit (Lewis Timberlake).](Profile_files/shapeimage_15.png)
jack’s buzz