Despite the obvious qualifications of all of Jesse's other sons, God appoints the unlikely David to become the king of Israel.

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.

People who are easily embarrassed – those who blush too often and too soon – usually end up retreating from excellence.

There are no such things as secrets only truths that have yet to be revealed.

Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.

I'd like to have kids at some point. I think I'll have a family someday.

I want to make great songs.

Rise and take your stance once again

miracles occur in psychoanalysis as seldom as anywhere else.

In off the moors, down through the mist beams, god-cursed Grendel came greedily loping.

He who can listen to the music in the midst of noise can achieve great things.