Steve Lawson Quotes

I have learned that I must be selective when, where, and with whom I dream out loud.

God isn’t put off by brokenness, weakness, failure, and sin. He simply declares them not true of us anymore. He is saying, “You now have a new identity: saint, blessed, chosen, adopted, redeemed, and forgiven.” The power of grace should never be underestimated.

It should go without saying that the first step in killing a giant is admitting that you are facing one.

The power of grace is such that God declares sinners saints, blesses those who deserve a curse, and honors the dishonorable. We may be convinced of our sinfulness and worthlessness, but God, through Jesus, has declared otherwise. We are no longer slaves to sin. We are blessed; we are chosen; we are predestined; we are heirs; we have been redeemed and forgiven!

Worship is not the entertainment of man, but the exaltation of God.

Fear is not the problem; it’s how we respond to it that gets us in trouble.

Please,” she scoffs. “Everyone knows Brooke wouldn’t have died that night if it hadn’t been for you. Interfering at that party, driving a wedge between her and Steve so she took off, alone. Talk about being a bad friend.” I grit

Where are such men of God today? Where are the preachers like Calvin, who will preach the Word with unwavering commitment? Where are the pastors who believe that God is uniquely with them as they mount their pulpits for the exposition of His Word? Where are the shepherds who have prioritized the preaching of the Word in public worship? Where are the expositors who will preach entire books of the Bible consecutively month after month and year after year? A long-awaited return to biblical preaching is direly needed. Such was the case in sixteenth-century Geneva, and such is the case today. May God raise up a new generation of expositors who are equipped and empowered to proclaim the Word.

It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and tell them what to do. We hire smart people so they can tell us what to do. —Steve Jobs

This is the same thought process Steve Jobs brought to the iPhone in 2007. He mocked all the phones with physical keyboards because, he correctly noted, the keyboard was always there whether you needed it or not. You could never update it, you couldn’t change languages, and you couldn’t get rid of it when you didn’t want it. The real estate on the device was always and forever a bunch of keys in the arrangement and language that the device shipped with. The iPhone keyboard is software. It disappears when you don’t need it, which is most of the time. It can change to an emoji keyboard when needed, or another language if you’re multilingual, which means Apple can ship one SKU worldwide. The language you need is just software, not something that has to be fixed at the factory.