Do we believe the reward found in Jesus is worth the risk of following Him?

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.

You will come away bruised.You will come away bruisedbut this will give you poetry.

Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.

I love the forest.

And what I learned is this: there are places in the world war one feels new, young, and alive again.

But words are more powerful than anything.

This universe is a fan of you. Watch the flowers in the morning, how they open towards the same sun that spends it's whole day following you.

We all have talents that, sometimes, we never quite fulfill. We're all scared, deep down, but maybe we just need to lay it on the line and explore our abilities and just not be afraid of failing.

Producers want to put their music behind revivals but I don’t think that’s a good trend for the theater at all.

All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them.

...Drifting downstream in a row boat doesn't count against your life span.