Fewer and fewer people are attracted to the church service and more and more people are attracted to the service of the church.

Live your life as a missions trip.

I take square aim at an unbiblical churchianity that has resulted in a church-centric religion that fails to reflect the heart of God for people.

To think and to live missionally means seeing all life as a way to be engaged with the mission of God in the world.

Among the gifts of serving others, then, is that we ourselves find our place of belonging.

We as a church don't have a mission. The mission has a Church.

You were created on purpose for a purpose.

How many evangelism programs have you encountered in which sharing the gospel assumes no relationship with the customer and Jesus is sold like soap?

The reason to get in touch with the culture is not to adopt it but to engage it for the same reasons a missionary does... to gain a hearing for the gospel.

Leaders in touch with heaven can move earth

When we look after the welfare of others, we promote and participate in God’s kingdom work.

He's not learning. He's not experiencing. He's remembering.He walks to the next screen, hungry to be himself again.

Anyone can be brave for five minutes or an hour or two. The bravery no one talks about is the hardest bravery of all. When you get up in the morning even though you'd rather be dead, that's brave.

When you write, you want to get rid of the world, do you not? Of course you do. When you're writing, you're creating your own worlds.

Luck came to those who left a space for it.

Just for a handful of silver he left us Just for a ribbon to stick in his coat.

Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory.

Acting careers dont come out fully formed - not unless your name is Jaden Smith and your dad has done it all.

And finally, it was Deuteronomy that brought about the historical result of Josiah's reformation.

I think diversity for most actors is such a blessing. It's something definitely I've strived for.

I like the idea of exercising, but I never do.