Finding Contentment Through Simplicity and Faith

### Quotes for Outreach

1. "So much of our life disconnects us. Even our recreation, we come to disconnect from the world. We come to disconnect, come to the beach. There's something about being in God's creation that we recognize that renews us. It recreates. That's recreation, recreating us. And we want to get renewed and recreated in the new life of Jesus." [06:25](Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


2. "The answer, when your needs are met. You have enough when your needs are met. So when you have enough, I have this group. Am I deaf in this side or nobody's talking? When do you have enough? So we're going to practice a habit of simplifying, and we're going to learn this little phrase, this little three-word phrase, and we're going to ask God, and we're going to repeat this phrase, this little phrase. We're going to ask God to kind of take that phrase and really put it into our hearts and internalize it. And so if you didn't know, this is C, and the phrase is, I have enough." [23:24](Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


3. "God, give me less of what doesn't matter, and God, give me more than what does matter. Give me less of what doesn't matter, and give me more than what does matter. Say that out loud. God, give me less of what doesn't matter, and give me more than what does matter. What if you prayed that consistently? What if that was really your desire? I mean, that'd be very, very counter-cultural. Wouldn't it? But it'd be very, very true to the words of Jesus." [24:52](Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


4. "Better is one handful with what? With tranquility or with peace. Two handfuls of toil and chasing after the wind. Let me illustrate it with this popcorn that set off the alarm at the church this morning. I actually burnt two bags. It's awful, all right? He says, look, better is just one handful with tranquility than two handfuls toil. But I mean, let's just be honest, in America, it looks more like this, right? We didn't worry about handfuls. It's just right there, hand to mouth. We're consumers. We're great consumers. But Ecclesiastes says, better is one handful with what? With peace. Better is less so you have room for what matters." [31:22](Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


5. "Because I have Jesus, I have enough. Say that. Because I have Jesus, I have enough. Because I have Jesus. You can only say I have enough if you're someone who has Jesus. Jesus, a walk with him, a one who's changed our heart and filled our heart. With this amazing forgiveness that we just praise God in the beginning of our service. That nothing we could do, nothing we could earn, this incredible gift that fills us, that gives us everything we need in it. Because I have Jesus. What? I have enough." [40:52](Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


### Quotes for Members

1. "If you want to change your life, you got to change your habits. But if you want to change your habits, you can put this in the middle of your notes, you got to let God change your heart. We can't change our heart. So Jesus tells us, don't store up stuff. That doesn't last. Don't accumulate more. Don't hoard. But the reality, most of us, almost, that's the goal of this accumulate. What do we want? We want bigger balances in the bank, don't we? I mean, why? Because that gives us a sense of security. I mean, I feel good when the numbers are up and not going down. I mean, we want our security in our money and not in God." [26:27](Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


2. "What does it mean to have less of what doesn't matter? If you have less of what doesn't matter, what do you do? Scripture teaches in Hebrew 12 once, I remember, let's say it together. Every weight that slows us down. And we do this by keeping our eyes on Jesus. Let's get rid of everything. Every weight, every stuff, every part of our schedule, every distraction, anything that everything that doesn't matter in the kingdom of God. And let's keep our eyes on Jesus. Let's have enough, as Paul did. And say, we have enough. We have our needs met. And let's just throw the rest overboard. Let's eliminate all the stuff that's weighing us down, distracting us, and keeping us from having our eyes on Jesus." [27:49](Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


3. "The closer you are to Jesus, the more you realize that the most meaningful things in life are not things. Christian and I have been married. We got three kids and we have five grandkids and our kids are all married. And we're empty nesters. And I can tell you, we look back on raising our kids and being with our children, it's not the things that matter. You didn't eat things. It was a time together. There was stuff like playing soccer. It was doing sports together. It was our Friday night picnic in the family room. My dad fried homemade chicken nuggets and french fries and onion rings. We killed several fryers. You know, movie night together. It was hiking. It was fishing. Pinewood Derby. Prayers at night, at bedtime, or quote unquote bedtime, because every time we did that, one kid wanted to stay up and talk. Like for hours. Building forts in the snow. I mean, the most meaningful things in life are never things." [36:14](Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


4. "When life comes in, you're not going to care where you travel last year. You're going to care about where you're going for eternity. And that's why Paul said, I've learned the secret. I've learned the secret of being content. I do all things through Christ who gives me strength. Christ, he's everything. Because I have Jesus, I have enough. If I'm sick, I have a healer. If I'm hurting, I have a comforter. If I'm sad, I have some, I have my joy. If I'm in sin, the glory of God, I have a savior. This is the habit of the heart. The habit of simplifying. And so God, give me less of what doesn't matter. God, give me more to what does matter. Why? Because your life is too valuable. Your calling is too great to waste your life on things that don't last. Because I have Jesus. Say it with me. I have enough." [49:11](Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


5. "And I want to say, as I said before, this could be easy to shake this off. This could be easy to point around because you know why you always see other people that have more and it always says like, I have less. But the reality is we all have a lot. And we all have a lot. And we all have a lot. And we all have our hands. And let me tell you, when you're in a car accident, it's not a stack of cash that you want next to you. It's Jesus. When you're getting reeled into a hospital, an operating room, it's not more followers on social media you want. It's not more popular. It's not a bigger home. It's Jesus that you want. When you send your kids off to college or you send them out to the world, it's not just, hey, I want brand, I want name brand shoes and clothing on them. No, you want Jesus to go with them." [47:45](Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)