God has made relationships His chosen delivery system for the gospel of hope.

If you're regularly willing to give a critique, but not willing to take one, you're not a leader, you're a cynic.

Regrettably, we've made it acceptable to sit in church week after week & do nothing & still call yourself a 'Christian.'

A church without the broken is a broken church.

To engage people in culture we must remember that holiness is separation from sin, not separation from sinners.

The Christian life is not about finding safety and comfort; it’s about finding yourself in a dangerous place of vulnerable compassion.

You cannot hate a people and reach a people at the same time.

Don't let your church be a cul-de-sac on the Great Commission highway.

Community is essential when it comes to successfully living out the Christian walk in a day-to-day context. So the math is simple: More community = More disciples.

If we demand things in worship that can't be in every culture, then we're demanding cultural preferences, not biblical.

Put your 'yes' on the table and let God put it on the map.

If I’m perplexed by the fact that I’m constantly lost, maybe somewhere in my head I’ve determined that being lost serves a greater purpose than being found.

Life is too magnificent to complain.

I think it bothers people to see people that are happy and successful. So they try to find what's wrong with them.

The aim of torture is to destroy a person as a human being, to destroy their identity and soul. It is more evil than murder.

I am a storyteller, and I do love ideas.

I figure I write for people who are intelligent enough to do some labor. Lazy readers are not my ideal readers.

I can sort of will that stuff to happen to me if I put myself in the right headspace. Then I can actually get to a space where it won't just be one song that comes through, but a series of them.

People said making clothes inside out was not proper. I disagreed because clothes that are inside out are as beautiful as a cathedral.

When Emily Dickinson writes, “Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul,” she reminds us, as the birds do, of the liberation and pragmatism of belief.

Sycorax has grown into a hoop