God's grace doesn't always come in comfortable forms. But it's still grace, and it's still evidence that He loves us.

We forget that God's primary goal is not changing our situations or relationships so that we can be happy, but changing us through our situations and relationships so that we will be holy.

Love is willing self-sacrifice for the good of another that does not require reciprocation or that the person being loved is deserving

God's design in our pain enables us to look back and say: He loves me enough to take me where I would have never wanted to go in order to produce in me what I never could have achieved on my own.

Corporate worship is a regular gracious reminder that it's not about you. You've been born into a life that is a celebration of another.

If you don't keep the eyes of your heart focused on the paradise that is to come, you will try to turn this poor fallen world into the paradise it will never be.

We are called by God to do theology, that is, to live our lives with a moment-by-moment consciousness of God.

Grace will expose the deepest issues of your heart, then point you to the Cross which covers everything that's been exposed.

God never intended for us to simply be the objects of His love. We are also called to be the instruments of that love in the lives of others.

Today you will envy the blessings of another, or you will bask in the wonder of the amazing grace you have been given.

You can tell yourself that God's not fair, or you can thank Him that He's not fair. If God was fair, we would be doomed and condemned.

Every greed is the root of un-gratefulness.

Success is a way of life with the sense of connection, compassion, and expansion of human life.

All I wanted was to share myself with him...in a love way, lust way, every kind of way.

There are only 3 things that can make your dreams come true: your thoughts, your words, and your actions.

My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.

Romance never does go out of fashion. It's radical. But it's out of step with the current media culture.

We need to reform our school lunch programs. We need to get healthy items into the vending machines.

Shame is the dying embers of virtue.

The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore.

Purplish brown? Let's agree it / is a color so bad we all flee it / it has no good use / so let's name it Puce / from the sound we make when we see it.