God uses sorrowful tragedy to set the stage for surprising triumph-whether in this life or the life to come.

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.

Great grace, great life.

I suspect that on some level, life is a matter of indefensible loyalties.

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you they're supposed to help you discover who you are.

At a show, I'll look out from the stage and see a woman with a pearl necklace next to a guy in a Grateful Dead T-shirt next to a young kid with his mom. It's fun to see them all together.

You have to pay people real money.

You need to make plans for your future, so plan your own future.

People in a hurry cannot think, cannot grow, nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility.

Identity in America is complicated but it's also simple: it's about whom you identify with and who identifies with you.

Ain't no love lost, cause there was never none there.

I want your heart, I want to eat your children.