Mark Batterson
Mark Batterson
Mark Batterson is an American pastor and author. Batterson serves as lead pastor of National Community Church in Washington, D.C. NCC was recognized as one of the Most Innovative and Most Influential Churches in America by Outreach Magazine in 2008. Batterson is also the author of the books In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day and Wild Goose Chase and blogs daily at www.evotional.com. Batterson's latest book The Circle Maker: Praying Circles Around Your Biggest Dreams and...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionClergyman
CountryUnited States of America
The healthiest and holiest people are the people who laugh at themselves the most. Failure helps us take God more seriously and ourselves less seriously.
Finally, I learned that we shouldn’t seek answers as much as we should seek God.
Jesus on Twitter would have been a pretty amazing thing.
Do you trust that God is for you even when He doesn’t give you what you asked for?
In an urban environment, a church building is a thing of the past.
If you really believe in the message you're preaching, you want as many people as possible to listen.
If Jesus were living in our culture, he would probably hang out in coffeehouses.
I'm a lifelong Vikings and Packers fan because I lived in both Minnesota and Wisconsin as a kid.
I think twenty-somethings are very cause-oriented.
In my experience, take the Holy Spirit out of the equation of your life and it spells boring. Add it into the equation of your life and you never know where you are going to go, what you are going to do, or who you are going to meet.
If you want to see God move make a move.
CONVICTIONS are lessons learned from experiences we’d never want to go through again, but wouldn’t trade for anything in the world.
Part of my driving desire as a pastor is to remove every obstacle except the cross that would keep people from coming to faith in Christ.
Imagination is the road less taken, but it is the pathway of prayer.