Jesus' epic work through his sinless life, atoning death, resurrection, and ascension, and the sending of the Spirit, was so that God could have an ethnically diverse family of Jews and Gentiles.

Being born again happens in an instant. Learning to live as a child of God takes a lifetime.

You are a trophy of God's grace. He has future accomplishments with your name written on them.

Substance and content over style and hype any day.

Local churches are ten times more segregated than the neighborhoods they are in and they are twenty times more segregated than the schools than the nearby schools.

Only 13.7% of churches in America are consider multiethnic. This means that 86.3 % of churches are homogenous.

God will crush the pride out of us one way or another. He loves us, and His glory, too much not to do it.

I coach church planters to look at the ethnic diversity of schools and neighborhoods they are near. This will be an indicator how ethnically diverse their congregation can become.

Leaders are like point guards, we set people up to score.

We must, by God's grace, embody the vision. If not, we are duplicitous.

It's hard to sin if you're preoccupied with Jesus.

Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.

My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed!

Only after I faced the unhappiness of my first marriage did I start on the path of personal growth.

Try to relax and enjoy the crisis.

Being dyslexic, I was told that I was an idiot all the time.

My sense was that most of the elected officials in Washington - in their heart of hearts - really believe that the system can't be too bad because it produced them.

It's a never-ending process to try to make yourself the best person you possibly can.

I'm trying to teach people how to live their everyday lives, and so I do focus on it, probably not as much as some people would like.

Intelligence and the spirit of adventure can be combined to create new energies, and out of these energies may come exciting and rewarding new prospects.

It's just too bad we can't have an epidemic of botulism.