John Tisdale
September 12, 2010
The more I study quantum physics, the more I realize how intricately the natural and supernatural are intertwined and how big a role faith plays in the outcome of everything that happens in this reality. What the Bible asserts, quantum physics explains. As it exposes the gears that drive our reality, it is becoming increasingly clear that science and faith aren't so far apart as we once imagined.
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John Tisdale
September 04, 2010
Any time we react to fear, we submit ourselves to its whims and we are certain to pay the price for it. Fear is never our friend but a thief cleverly disguised as wisdom set on robbing us blind. Whenever we agree with the inner voice of fear, we surrender to it part of our strength and resources. One thing is certain, when we align with fear, we are agreeing with our enemy and handing over to him what he does not deserve. Fear never protects us as it asserts. Rather, it robs us and makes us all the more its slave. Many people's lives can be defined as one reaction to fear after another--chained into a sequence that constitutes a shadow of a life. As a result, they make no forward momentum to become the person God created them to be. They just keep going around the same mountain over and over again. They are unable to break the bondage to fear and step out into their true identity and destiny. Freedom from fear begins with the awareness and recognition that it is nothing more than your enemy.
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John Tisdale
August 21, 2010
In those rare moments in which heaven is rolled back and I get a glimpse into eternity, my spirit awakens within me, I behold Him as He is, and I am overcome with desires far too magnificent for this world to comprehend. I see the meager portions of life and breath upon which I’ve fed far too long. A great chasm of longing awakens within me. I hear the voice of one who beckons me to be no more satisfied chasing the petty whims of men. With one so magnificent who calls me to Himself, how can I give another thought to any other? His voice lingers deep within my spirit. I know the direction of His calling. I must awake and pursue. Once again my heart is off in chase of Him. Whatever the cost, I am ruined for every lesser thing. He alone is my great desire. No lesser pursuit will do.
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John Tisdale
August 19, 2010
It is a profound mystery to me how so many fear people so much and God so little. Our efforts to gain favor with people is a waste of our strength spent chasing after the wind. Our efforts to gain favor with God is a sound investment in our eternal portfolio.
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People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.
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Francis Frangipane
March 30, 2010
Many Christians debate whether the devil is on the earth or in hell; can he dwell in Christians or only in the world? The fact is, the devil is in darkness. Wherever there is spiritual darkness, there the devil will be.
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Francis Frangipane
January 29, 2010
We in our world have a different version of Christianity than that which Christ founded in the first century. Our version secures a hope in the afterlife, but does little to change us in the present life. We are still as easily offended and as unloving as those who do not know Christ -- and we are certainly just as divisive. Yes, we marvel at what Christ accomplished at Calvary, but we shrink from what He desires to fulfill in us. We desire His blessings, but not His backbone. Because we have diluted the full purpose of Christianity, which is conformity to Christ, the power to transform us is likewise diluted. As a result, our leaders fall, marriages fail and the gospel is reduced to a course on ethics, which we can take or leave since God forgives us anyway. As awesome as being forgiven is, the Son of God did not lay down His life only to secure forgiveness; the eternal goal of His sacrifice was to secure our full transformation. Forgiveness is but the first stage of transformation.
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Francis Frangipane
January 29, 2010
Without the alliance of both the cross and Christ dwelling within us, we never leave the treadmill of religious futility. For religious spirits easily manipulate our flesh, making us legalistic or licentious, ritualistic or political. The only version of Christianity that truly works is that which crucifies the flesh and brings the actual substance of Christ into the soul. As Paul wrote, "I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. . ." (Gal 2:20a).
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Francis Frangipane
January 29, 2010
One obstacle we must overcome is the illusion that we, because of our ability to "rightly divide the word," are more spiritual than those in other churches. This deception infects churches across the board. Consequently, we remain divided, kept in isolation by our own spiritual pride, never discerning that the enemy has the church down the street similarly thinking they are more spiritual than we.
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Francis Frangipane
January 29, 2010
There is a story of a man who, in search of God, came to study at the feet of an old teacher. The sage brought this young man to a lake and led him out into the shoulder-deep water. Putting his hands upon his pupil's head, he promptly pushed him under the water and continued to hold him there until the disciple, feeling he would surely drown, frantically repelled the old man's resistance. In shock and confusion the young man resurfaced. "What is the meaning of this?" he demanded. His teacher looked him in the eyes and said, "When you desire God as you desired air, you shall find Him."
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Francis Frangipane
January 29, 2010
Let us also understand, we will not find His fullness by seeking Him merely in convenient times and comfortable places. Rather, our quest is a determined, continual pilgrimage which will not end until He is disclosed to us (Phil 3:12). We are confident, though, for He has promised that, in the day we seek Him with our whole hearts, we shall find Him (Jer 29:13).
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Francis Frangipane
January 11, 2010
There are times when life, like a river, is over your head and you feel like you are drowning. Yet, the water from these very rivers wash away your filth. What the water does not remove, the fire purifies.
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Francis Frangipane
January 11, 2010
The faith that relentlessly asks God, also pleases God. Now, as the fullness of the times unfolds, as the world around us clothes itself in prophetic fulfillment, let us put away fear and repent of withdrawal.
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Francis Frangipane
January 11, 2010
Just because the current giant you are facing looks like one you defeated in the past, don't buy the lie that you never really won the first battle! By the strength of God's grace, you trusted the Almighty and conquered your Goliath. The first giant is dead. Satan is masquerading as your former enemy so he can slip past your faith and regain entrance into your life. Resist him.
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Francis Frangipane
January 11, 2010
There will be no "knights in shining armor" in God's kingdom; our armor will have many dings and dents. No, no perfect Hollywood heroes will ride to save the day; just wearied saints to look to God and, in weakness, find Christ's strength. This, indeed, is the essence of God's kingdom: divine greatness manifest in common people.
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Francis Frangipane
January 11, 2010
Christ's life unfolds, in part, as we learn to appreciate the gifts He has given us. How easy it is to blame others for our unhappiness, but we are only unhappy when something other than Christ has become our life. (For example) The husband or wife who has Christ as their life, comes to their spousal relationship already satisfied. They do not come continually looking to made happy by another person's attention; they bring Christ's life to their spouse.
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Francis Frangipane
January 11, 2010
Jesus defeated Satan in Gethsemane on the cross, not by directly confronting the devil, but by fulfilling the destiny to which He had been called. The greatest battle that was ever won was accomplished by the apparent death of the victor, without even a word of rebuke to His adversary!
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Francis Frangipane
January 11, 2010
Too many Christians become bitter and angry in the conflict. If we descend into hatefulness, we have already lost the battle ... We must cooperate with God in turning what was meant for evil into a greater good within us. This is why we bless those who would curse us: It is not only for their sakes but to preserve our own soul from its natural response toward hatred.
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Francis Frangipane
January 11, 2010
Our first place of victory [over fear] is in believing the truth concerning our relationship with God. Paul tells us that, "having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ" (Rom 5:1). We reject the lie that insists God is our enemy. We come to believe He is our Helper in the healing of our souls!
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Francis Frangipane
January 11, 2010
The conflict will always beyond your strength. The enemy always pushes us beyond our personal, inbred, preset limits concerning how far we will go for God: "Here's how far I'm going to love; this is how many times I'll turn the other cheek." The test kills the limits of our humanity, until we are like Christ in everything. We are left with a choice: Become Christlike or gradually shrivel into superficial hypocrites: angry people who have stopped walking with God, who blame others for our bitterness.
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Francis Frangipane
January 11, 2010
To win the war against fear, we must know the true God as He is revealed in the Bible. He works to give us lasting peace. He receives joy, not from condemning us but in rescuing us from the devil. Yes, the Lord will bring conviction to our hearts concerning sin, but it is so He can deliver us from sin's power and consequences. In its place, the Lord works to establish healing, forgiveness and peace.
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Francis Frangipane
January 11, 2010
I tell you, if you are serious about wanting to be like Christ, He is going to put you in circumstances where your only true choice is to become like Him.
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Francis Frangipane
January 11, 2010
I realize that many Christians have not been praying because they have not accepted the reality of war in which we find ourselves. There is a spiritual war mode that we must appropriate. It is an aggressive stance that we take against evil. It is governed by love for people, but it is fearless and uncompromising with the powers of darkness that manipulate people to fulfill evil plans.
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Francis Frangipane
January 11, 2010
The key to lasting happiness and real pleasure in this world is not found in seeking gratification, but in pleasing God. And while the Lord desires that we enjoy His gifts and the people to whom we are joined, He wants us to know that we were created first for His pleasure.
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Francis Frangipane
January 11, 2010
Any time we open ourselves up to fear, we fall prey to his deceptions and intimidations. Yet, if we submit our hearts to God and stand in faith, we can resist those first fearful thoughts. As we yield to God we can master our reactions to fear and the enemy will soon flee.
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Francis Frangipane
January 11, 2010
Satan has access to the domain of darkness, but he can only occupy those areas where mankind, through sin, has allowed him.
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Francis Frangipane
January 11, 2010
Each of us has two natures: one, a hard outer husk, which is an old nature; the other an inner softness, which constitutes our true self. The outer husk is that part of us that, while we are flesh-centre beings, is used to protect ourselves from the harshness of our world. Before we come to Christ, that "husk" protects the inner softness, which otherwise cannot endure the struggles of life in this hostile, devil-filled world. But when we come to Christ, the husk must be broken and die. We cannot rely on the way of the flesh to protect us; we must become Christ-centred.
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Francis Frangipane
January 11, 2010
We have received too much from God to allow ourselves opportunities for unbelief. We have received too many gifts and privileges to allow a grumbling, murmuring heart to disqualify us of our destiny. In contrast, the thankful heart sees the best part of every situation. It sees problems and weaknesses as opportunities, struggles as refining tools, and sinners as saints in progress.
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Francis Frangipane
January 11, 2010
The church...for too long has followed Casper, the friendly ghost instead of seeking the fire of the Holy Spirit. We have turned limp at the thought of our own cross; we faint when we think of suffering or sacrifice. Beloved, it is time to embrace the fire of God's Presence. It is the fire that purifies our sacrifice.
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Francis Frangipane
January 11, 2010
If we exalt money, status, or sex above the Word of God, we are living in idolatry. Every time we inwardly submit to the strongholds of fear, bitterness, and pride, we are bowing to the rulers of darkness. Each of these idols must be smashed, splintered, and obliterated from the landscape of our hearts.
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Francis Frangipane
January 11, 2010
God can never entrust His Kingdom to anyone who has not been broken of pride, for pride is the armor of darkness itself.
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Francis Frangipane
January 11, 2010
More churches have been destroyed by the accuser of the brethren and its faultfinding than by either immorality or misuse of church funds. So prevalent is this influence in our society that, among many, faultfinding has been elevated to the status of a "ministry"!
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Francis Frangipane
January 11, 2010
We can be assured that each step deeper into the Lord's Presence will reveal areas in our hearts which need to be cleansed. Do not be afraid. When the Spirit shows you areas of sin, it is not to condemn you, but to cleanse you.
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Francis Frangipane
January 11, 2010
Up until the moment Christ enters our lives, surrounding our souls there exists a hard outer shell, a "survival nature," which protects us against life's harshest offenses. The shell is necessary while we are in the world, but becomes an enemy to our new life in Christ, where the nature of Christ becomes our shelter. Thus, as the shell of a seed, a nut or an egg must be broke before its inner life comes forth, so it is with us: the "shell" of our outer nature must also break in order to free the Spirit of Christ to arise in our hearts.
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Francis Frangipane
January 11, 2010
Beloved, I say, let your fears go, lest they make you fainthearted. Stop inspiring fear in those around you and now take your stand in faith. God has been good and He will continue to manifest His goodness.... Let us approach these days expecting to see the goodness of the Lord manifest. Let us be strong and of good courage, for the Lord will fight for us if we stand in faith.
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Francis Frangipane
January 11, 2010
To those whose attitude is just Jesus and me I say, it is wonderful you found Jesus. But you cannot truly have Jesus and simultaneously not do what He says. The outgrowth of love and faith in Christ is love and faith like Christ's, which means we are committed, even as He is, to His people.
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Francis Frangipane
January 11, 2010
I have learned that much of my spiritual progress does not come directly from God, but through my ability to humble myself and hear Him speak through imperfect people. In fact, I have discovered that it pleases Him to hide His manifold wisdom in a variety of people and denominational perspectives. I know that the more I humble myself to others, the broader my understanding of God has actually become.
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Francis Frangipane
January 11, 2010
Satan's arsenal consists of such things as fear, worry, doubt, and self-pity. Every one of these weapons robs us of peace and leaves us troubled inside. Do you want to discern where the enemy is coming against you? In the network of your relationships, wherever you do not have peace, you have war. Conversely, wherever you have victory, you have peace. When Satan hurls his darts against you, the more peace you have during adversity, the more truly you are walking in Christ's victory.
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Francis Frangipane
January 11, 2010
There's something like radar inside the human heart that senses the displeasure of others. Displeasure and ingratitude are like a repellent to human relationships. People think, "If I can't measure up, if you can't see anything good in me, I'll go where people will accept me as I am." Thanksgiving brings our loved ones closer to us rather than driving them away.
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Francis Frangipane
January 11, 2010
The first step toward having spiritual authority over the adversary is having peace in spite of our circumstances. When Jesus confronted the devil, He did not confront Satan with His emotions or in fear. Knowing the devil was a liar, He simply refused to be influenced by any other voice other than God's. His peace overwhelmed Satan. His authority then shattered the lie, which sent demons flying.
A quote by Francis Frangipane from Who Hold the Key to Your Heart
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John Bevere
March 13, 2003
If you desire the praise of man, you will fear man. If you fear man, you will serve him - for you will serve what you fear.
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John Tisdale
January 26, 2003
The moment we think that we comprehend God’s thoughts is when we have totally lost touch with who He is and who we are.
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John Tisdale
January 26, 2003
Everyone of us are weak, desperate, flawed, screwed up, naked, blind, perverted people in absolute hopeless need of God’s forgiveness and provision for our lives. It's as if we were created with only one hope for life and that is God. This works out well since God is the only one who possesses life.
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John Tisdale
January 26, 2003
Our religion tries to mimics God’s holiness but it is of a completely different nature.
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John Tisdale
January 26, 2003
When we try to apply our religion to our relationship with God, it yields death and perversion.
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John Tisdale
January 26, 2003
We know religion, but we don’t understand holiness.
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John Tisdale
January 26, 2003
There is not a grain of righteousness in any of us. God alone is righteous and we are not like Him.
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John Tisdale
January 26, 2003
We are religious; God is Holy. When we confuse the two, we mock God.
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John Tisdale
January 26, 2003
We think we understand love until we compare ours with God's and discover no resemblance whatsoever.
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John Tisdale
January 04, 2003
No matter what defines your past, your presence is independent of it. Your future hinge not on your past choices, but on your present and future owns.
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John Tisdale
January 04, 2003
Our dreams are far more powerful than any obstacle we encounter along the journey to their fulfillment.
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J. R. R. Tolkien
January 02, 2003
Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
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John Tisdale
December 16, 2002
We are so quick to settle for so very little when so much more is within our reach.
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John Tisdale
December 16, 2002
Social norms are the straight-jackets into which society tries to convince us we most comfortably fit.
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John Milton
December 15, 2002
He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
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Sir Walter Scott
December 15, 2002
O! many a shaft, at random sent,
Finds mark the archer little meant;
And many a word, at random spoken,
May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!
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E. H. Chapin
December 15, 2002
Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.
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Sidney Madwed
December 15, 2002
If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom.
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Andre Gide
December 15, 2002
Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.
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Lewis Thomas
December 15, 2002
We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry; we meditate over the literature; we play the music; we change our minds; we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.
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Douglas Adams
December 15, 2002
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
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Alexander Penney
December 15, 2002
The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but hold hands.
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Sir Hugh Walpoe
December 15, 2002
The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of Divine accident.
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Henry Winkler
December 15, 2002
Assumptions are the termites of relationships.
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Harriet Lerner
December 15, 2002
Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan. But to have any meaning or viability at all, a life plan must include intimate relationships.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
December 15, 2002
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
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Isaac Newton
December 15, 2002
I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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David Searls
December 15, 2002
Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean.
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Helen Keller
December 15, 2002
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
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Susan Polis Schutz
December 15, 2002
This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy.
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Sir Francis Bacon
December 15, 2002
The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
December 15, 2002
A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
December 15, 2002
Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.
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Seneca (3 BC - 65 AD)
December 15, 2002
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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Voltaire (1694-1778)
December 15, 2002
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
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George Bernard Shaw
December 15, 2002
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
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Earl Warren
December 15, 2002
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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J. R. R. Tolkien
December 15, 2002
Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.
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Abraham Lincoln
December 15, 2002
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
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Sallust (86 BC-34 BC)
December 15, 2002
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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Commitment To Excellence
December 15, 2002
Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence.
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Sun-Tzu (~300 BC)
December 15, 2002
To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
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Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
December 15, 2002
All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.
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The Work of the Chariot
December 15, 2002
When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in the worlds of time.
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Joseph Chilton Pearce
December 15, 2002
We must accept that this creative pulse within us is God's creative pulse itself.
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Leo Tolstoy
December 15, 2002
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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Comte de Buffon
December 15, 2002
Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.
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Mother Teresa
December 15, 2002
I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.
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Agathon (448 BC-400 BC)
December 15, 2002
Even God cannot change the past.
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Galileo Galilei
December 15, 2002
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
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Albert Einstein
December 15, 2002
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
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Robert Collier
December 15, 2002
You cannot hold on to anything good. You must be continually giving - and getting. You cannot hold on to your seed. You must sow it - and reap anew. You cannot hold on to riches. You must use them and get other riches in return.
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Dale Carnegie
December 15, 2002
When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness. Our enemies would dance with joy if only they knew how they were worrying us, lacerating us, and getting even with us! Our hate is not hurting them at all, but our hate is turning our own days and nights into a hellish turmoil.
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Sheldon Kopp
December 15, 2002
In the long run, we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving.
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Kahlil Gibran
December 15, 2002
Quote by Kahlil Gibran
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
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George Eliot
December 15, 2002
Quote by George Eliot
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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Rollo May
December 15, 2002
Quote by Rollo May
It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle.
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Robert C. Murphy
December 15, 2002
Quote by Robert C. Murphy
To be listened to is, generally speaking, a nearly unique experience for most people. It is enormously stimulating. It is small wonder that people who have been demanding all their lives to be heard so often fall speechless when confronted with one who gravely agrees to lend an ear. Man clamors for the freedom to express himself and for knowing that he counts. But once offered these conditions, he becomes frigthened.
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Author Unknown
December 15, 2002
Quote by Author Unknown
Freedom is a package deal - with it comes responsibilities and consequences.
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Quote by Ghandi
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.
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