That is relinquishing control in a culture that prioritizes control and doing what you need to do in order to advance yourself.

We are settling for a Christianity that revolves around catering to ourselves when the central message of Christianity is actually about abandoning ourselves.

If you can trust God to save you for eternity, you can trust him to lead you for a lifetime.

This is how God works. He puts people in positions where they are desperate for his power, and then he shows his provision in ways that display his greatness

When you come to Jesus, you don't come to get health, wealth and prosperity. You come to Jesus to get Jesus

People will never know how glorious the cross is until they know how serious sin is.

Do you realize the weight of the one who has invited us to follow him? He is worthy of more than church attendance and casual association; he is worthy of total abandonment and supreme adoration.

Every saved person this side of heaven owes the gospel to every lost person this side of hell.

This is the curse of superficial religion: the constant attempt to do outward things apart from inward transformation.

People who claim to be Christians while their lives look no different from the rest of the world are clearly not Christians

The bible informs us, compels us to care for the poor, to love the outcast, to serve the needy.

...words are so strong and I am so timid - my soul ignores warnings and I end up covered with your paint ...

No knife cuts as swiftly, deeply and precisely as the blade of the Beloved.

My favorite subject was recess. Fortunately for me, I had a mother who believed I was smart.

Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive

The reason we bitterly hate those who deceive us is because they think they are cleverer than we are.

The only club in the bag specifically designed to get the ball in the cup is the putter. Why not learn it first?

I've never attended any Tea Party functions.

Never prod at a woman unless you must. She will kill you faster than a man and for less reason, even if she weeps over it after.

Any woodsman can tell you that in a broken and sundered nest, one can hardly find more than a precious few whole eggs. So it is with the family.

More leaders have been made by accident, circumstance, sheer grit, or will than have been made by all the leadership courses put together.