God is not a supporting actor in our life movie. We exist for his purposes, not the other way around.

People ask me, 'Why pray if God is sovereign?' I respond, 'Why pray if He isn't?

The goal of Christian mission is not success, but faithful witness; not power, but proclamation; not technique, but truth; not method, but message.

God's church is not a stage for us to perform on but a garden for us to grow in.

Christians are driven by God's promises, and directed by God's purposes.

When the focus becomes 'What would Jesus do?' instead of 'What has Jesus done?' the [conservative/liberal] labels no longer matter.

We cannot find God for the same reason that a thief can't find a police officer.

The power of God unto salvation is not our passion for God, but the passion He has exhibited toward us sinners by sending his own Son to redeem us.

If you want to be an athlete, there's no way around it: You have to go to the gym. You can't Google your way to it.

God’s Word does not merely impart information; it actually creates life. It’s not only descriptive; it’s effective too, God speaking is God acting.

Faith in Christ is able to endure doubts-it's able to endure temptations-bec ause it faces them, not because it pretends they're not there.

We belong where we are most loved

Our words and our works are evidence that our profession of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is true.

The power of art can break the shackles that bind and divide human beings.

Here's how I understand music. If you can play the same bunch of noise twice, it's music. To go beyond that is supercilious and pontificating.

I think adversity is the dust that polishes the diamond.

If you concern yourself with your neighbor’s talents, you’ll neglect your own. But if you concern yourself with yours, you could inspire both!

I'm pretty tight - I rewrite, in some cases, 70 to 80 times before I show it to people.

Though energy and inspiration diminish, experience grows - the theme of parents and kids, for instance.

There's a lot of pressure putting an album out all over the world and hoping people everywhere like it.

The happy ending of the Resurrection is so enormous that it swallows up even the sorrow of the Cross.