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

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.

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.

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.

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

The real tragedy of life is not the fear of darkness, but it is to conform and follow the darkness in spite of fear.

Illusory attachment (moha) is indeed what will keep on biting you until the point of your demise!

Put your sword back in its place, " Jesus said to him, "for all who draw the sword will die by the sword.

Love is more responsible, when it's titled a definite relation...

The most important thing for me is to have real friendship between Egyptians and Americans.

If you stick a knife nine inches into my back and pull it out three inches, that is not progress.

All of us have a lot of sides to ourselves, but the fun thing about being actor is you make one side predominant for the character you're playing.

You cannot write well or much (and I venture the opinion that you cannot write well unless you write much) unless you form a habit.

Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretch'd in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.