Christmas is all about surrender. It's all about the surrender of the Son to obey the perfect will of the Father and enter human history.

Sound theology should always lead us to doxology and transformation.

Contentment is just the realization that God has already provided for me today all that I need for my present peace and happiness.

Don’t wait for God to break you. You can choose to be broken or you can wait for God to crush your pride.

God is good whether or not His choices seem right to us, whether or not we feel it, whether or not it seems true, and whether or not He gives us everything that we want.

The ultimate purpose of marriage is not to make us happy but to glorify God.

We are never more like Jesus than when we are serving Him or others. There is no higher calling than to be a servant.

Gratitude is a lifestyle. A hard-fought, grace-infused, biblical lifestyle.

Again and again, God's Word reveals that He is not as concerned about the depth or extent of the sin we commit as He is about our attitude and response when we are confronted with our sin.

Jesus has revealed Himself in the Scripture. If we want to know Him, if we want to know the Truth, we must devote ourselves to the reading, study, and meditation of His Word

Those who say in simple surrender 'Yes, Lord,' emerge from the experience spiritually rich, and become a source of grace and encouragement to others who are hurting.

Build a House for men and birds.Sit with them and play music.For a day, for just one day, talk about that which disturbs no oneand bring some peace, my friend, into your beautiful eyes.

I think life is a matter of choices and that wherever we are, good or bad, is because of choices we make.

What's your angle?" I asked, trying to sound more playful than demanding. "Isosceles," Jack quipped.

And I said to myself that he was the first thing that I had ever missed in my life.

I didn't want to be told what to do. I don't want to water down my music to fit into their formats. I know what rock and roll is to me, but everything's turning into one big commercial.

I'm happy if everybody else is. I'm a big brother, the oldest. If you're happy and I'm not, I'm cool with that. If I'm happy and you're not, I'm sad.

Though we cannot see the heart, we can see the life.

Think ahead. Don't let day-to-day operations drive out planning.

The quality of artistry is the capacity to assume innocence at will, the quality of experiencing innocence as if for the first time.

When you hear the music ringin' in your soul And you feel it in your heart and it grows and grows And it comes from the backstreet rock & roll and the healing has begun...