Quotes about Expansion

Every time you make creative, interactive, and harmonious jazz with your Redeemer, whether in your home, friendships, community, church, or at work, while staying inside of his parameters, you are expanding what you touch to the size of God's kingdom.

But this book is not a theology of kingdom, nor an exposition of the kingdom passages in the Bible. No, it is simply a meditation on what Jesus meant when he called us to "seek first his kingdom." What does it really look like to expand everything our lives contain to touch the size of his kingdom?

It is a fundamental denial of your humanity to narrow the size of your life to the size of your own existence, because you were created to be an "above and more" being. You were made to be transcendent.

The broader we cast our net, the deeper we wind up owning our own thoughts.

Now when men began to multiply on the face of the earth and daughters were born to them,

But as for you, be fruitful and multiply; spread out across the earth and multiply upon it.”

May God expand the territory of Japheth; may he dwell in the tents of Shem, and may Canaan be his servant.”

After Lot had departed, the LORD said to Abram, “Now lift up your eyes from the place where you are, and look to the north and south and east and west,

Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and east and north and south. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you and your offspring.

Zebulun shall dwell by the seashore and become a harbor for ships; his border shall extend to Sidon.

For I will drive out the nations before you and enlarge your borders, and no one will covet your land when you go up three times a year to appear before the LORD your God.

And the Gadites built up Dibon, Ataroth, Aroer,