User:PitPat2



Country: Germany

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Q: Why do you contribute to YWAMKB? A: Really, do I? I am delighted to read all these inspirational articles, and well, when I find formatting or spelling errors, I can't help correcting them.

TODO

 * Write about Webmaster 101
 * Edit Chronological Storytelling (protect page)
 * Find out what Incarnational means
 * Complete Relational Truth
 * Asking Even More Great Questions
 * Promote Evaluate your YWAM website
 * Assemble the statements about Dualism - The Spiritual and the Worldly that are distributed in different articles
 * Research and write about cultures of guilt (US, Europe) / cultures of shame (Asia, Arabic).
 * Integrate social aspects into technical topics. Rules often do not correspond with the real, informal way of working.
 * Finish Fundraising through affiliation programs
 * Dev:
 * Spam: Show same question per session (&check answers)
 * Check why HastyBots Weblinkchecker doesn't work anymore
 * Think about implementing Thanks (needs MW 1.22)
 * VisualEditor
 * Put changes to CSS into MediaWiki:Common.css

Quotes
To conclude, therefore, let no man (upon a weak conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied moderation) think or maintain that a man can search too far, or be too well studied in the book of God’s word, or in the book of God’s works, divinity or philosophy ...    only let men beware that they apply both to charity, and not to swelling; to use, and not to ostentation ... (Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning, 1605)

Dream is not that which you see while sleeping it is something that does not let you sleep. (A.P.J. Abdul Kalam)

To become a hero [of faith], you must first pass the qualifying test: Are you ordinary? > If so, that is a good start. Do you love Jesus, and have you accepted His offer of eternal life? > That is essential. You have to be part of the family to become a family hero. Are you willing to trust God with the reins of your life, and let Him steer you where He wants to take you? > He's the only one who knows the way, so this only makes sense. If you can persevere and are willing to invest a little now for a future reward, you have all the essential ingredients. Oh yes, it helps if you are naturally weak too (II Corinthians 12:10). (Steve Saints, "the great omission", p. 189)

God has not been trying an experiment on my faith or love in order to find out their quality. He knew it already. It was I who didn't. [...] He always knew that my temple was a house of cards. His only way of making me realize the fact was to knock it down. (C.S. Lewis: "A Grief Observed", p. 45)

All our merely natural activities will be accepted, if they are offered to God, even the humblest: and all of them, even the noblest, will be sinful if they are not. [...]  The work of a Beethoven, and the work of a charwoman, become spiritual on precisely the same condition, that of being offered to God, of being done humbly “as to the Lord”. (C.S. Lewis: "Learning in War-Time") You see, deep down, David is beginning to think that he's going to do God a favor. If he can build a bigger temple than the pagans around do for their God, then isn't he showing that [his] God is even more magnificent? [...]  And God says: "it doesn't work like that. I'm the one that makes your name great." Now you see in a certain context it is wonderful for believers to try magnify God's name. [...]  Worshiping God, magnifying his name ought to be a response of gratitude and adoration and thankfulness, not somehow saying: "The pagans worship their Gods, we can also worship you because ... in a competition we can make your name greater than they can make their names great." (D.A. Carson God who reigns, 21:22-22:31)

I've told the Lord I want to be an obediant servant, and he shot back: "Are you willing to face grief and pain or whatever it takes for Me to make you that?" Even though I felt unable, I said: "What choice do I have?  I know too much to drop the ball now. There's no turning back." (E. Elliot: "Passion & Purity", p. 77)

A stunned and grateful heart is free to love because it has been captured with the hilarious paradox that we are unlovely but loved, and unable to love but free to try without condemnation. And all efforts to love are made lovely and useful by a great Lover who superintends all our bumbling efforts and turns the dross of mixed motives to the gold of eternal intentions. (Allender & Tremper, "Bold Love", p. 43)

It's not about you. (Rick Warren, Purpose-Driven Life, chap.1) You salvation requires you to turn back to me, and stop your silly efforts to save yourselves. Your strength will come from settling down in complete dependence on me -- The very thing you've been unwilling to do. ( Isaiah 30:15 The Message)

One of the most common statements people use to encourage one another is, "You just need to trust God more!" It rarely works. [...]  Trust is not something we can choose to increase on demand; it only grows as our security in God's love for us grows. (Wayne Jacobsen & Clay Jacobsen, "authentic relationships - discovering the lost art of 'one anothering'", p. 96)

I do not believe the poor to me more virtuous than anyone else (though I have found them more compassionate and often more generous), but they are less likely to pretend to be virtuous. (Philip Yancey about the Beatitudes, in: "The Jesus I Never Knew", p. 116)

A perfect man would never act from sense of duty; he'd always want the right thing more than the wrong one. Duty is only a substitute for love (of God and of other people), like a crutch, which is a substitute for a leg. Most of us need the crutch at times; but of course it's idiotic to use the crutch when our own legs (our own loves, tastes, habits etc) can do the journey on their own! (C.S. Lewis, "Letters to children", p. 72 - Letter from 18th July 1957)

... people lost and afraid in the dark come flocking to the light. They don't think about the latern at all - it's the light [inside the latern] they want. Missionaries really are very unimportant people. They are just empty laterns. It's the light that matters. (Patricia StJohn, Star of Light, p.104)

How in the world do we know what God wants? ...  Go to him with empty hands-- no hidden agendas, no crossed fingers, nothing behind your back. Go to him with a willingness to do whatever he says. (Max Lucado, On The Anvil - Stories on being shaped into God's image, 1985)

Always do your very best in your job, but if you don't like what you're doing enough that you would do it for free, quit. (eTouch Nov 2011)

Most of all, love each other as if your life depended on it. The message

I ask ... to make you intelligent and discerning in knowing him personally, your eyes focused and clear, so that you can see exactly what it is he is calling you to do, grasp the immensity of this glorious way of life he has for his followers, oh, the utter extravagance of his work in us who trust him ... The Message

People don't care what you say, as long as they don't know that you care. (Chris Child ?)

There is a difference between knowledge and wisdom. Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit not a vegetable. Wisdom is knowing not to include it in a fruit salad. (eTouch Nov 2010)

Some people God uses; but others He walks with, because He loves their friendship. (eTouch March 2010)

If you feel somehow blocked in deciding something or finding a solution to something, chances are, that the balance between thinking, feeling and doing isn't right. (Worries are overwhelming, Feelings are intimidating or Actions seem to be without much backthought, heartless.) (ISBUS Jan 2011)