Our greatest fear as individuals & as a church should not be of failure, but of suceeding at things in life that dont really matter.

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.

But God doesn't call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him so completely that we are unafraid to put ourselves in situations where we will be in trouble if He doesn't come through.

God's definition of what matters is pretty straightforward. He measures our lives by how we love.

We never grow closer to God when we just live life. It takes deliberate pursuit and attentiveness.

Lukewarm living and claiming Christ's name simultaneously is utterly disgusting to God.

The point of your life is to point to Him. Whatever you are doing, God wants to be glorified, because this whole thing is His.

‎"Do you know that nothing you do in this life will ever matter, unless it is about loving God and loving the people he has made?

True faith manifests itself through our actions.

True faith means holding nothing back. It means putting every hope in God's fidelity to His Promises.

God exists outside of time, and since we are within time, there is no way we will ever totally grasp that concept.

I know this is war, but the rest of us are trying to pretend it's a party.

A dam tears at all the interconnected webs of river valley life.

Now, I don't want to get off on a rant here, but guilt is simply God's way of letting you know that you're having too good a time.

Several indisputable facts appear evident in geological and climate science that make me a true 'denier' of human-caused global warming.

We must support our rights or lose our character, and with it, perhaps, our liberties.

Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you'll always win!

To obtain success, you must get the most out of your ability and to do that you must work on your weaknesses.

Ironically, even the fashion in New York or Paris or Milan or whatever, or music in Berlin, or art in, I don't know, Madrid - all these scenes come and go. Everything leads back to Hollywood.

I've always just liked writing poetry, but it's much later that I've discovered that there's this whole poetry world out there, that you almost have to be accepted into, like this little club.

You gain your point if your industrious art can make unusual words easy.