Have you read your Bible or has the Bible read you?

My sin in the past: forgiven. My current struggles: covered. My future failures: paid in full all by the marvelous, infinite, matchless grace found in the atoning work of the cross of Jesus Christ.

God is awesome; he doesn’t need you to be awesome. He wants you to be obedient.

Love says: I've seen the ugly parts of you, and I'm staying. Our culture doesn't love love; It loves the idea of love. It wants the emotion without the sacrifice.

If you’re a church person and not a Jesus person, my heart hurts for you. It’s like being engaged and never getting married. It’s miserable.

The more you make this world about you, the more miserable you will be.

Comfort is the god of our generation, so suffering is seen as a problem to be solved, and not a providence from God.

No change of job, no increased income, no new home, no new electronic device, or no new spouse is going to make things better inside of you.

God is at work in the mess. That's the message of the Bible. That's why the Bible is not pretty. That's why it's grimy, because God is working in the mess. He's working in the tears.

Faith doesn’t mean an absence of fear. It means facing fear and trusting that God’s goodness is greater.

God does not regret saving you. There is no sin which you commit which is beyond the cross of Christ.

Being honest may not get you a lot of friends it’ll get you the right ones

When you do the things that you can do, you will find a way.

If we can just be brave enough to be each others mirror, we may finally recognize the face of conscious that we fear.

Art should be truth; and truth, unadorned, unsentimentalized, is beauty.

Thinking is more precious than all five senses.

I think that the web and its various facets are incredibly useful in just building a fan base and getting your chops better.

I can't stand loud guitars that make me deaf.

Whom God has put asunder, why should man put together?

The good Lord in his ultimate wisdom gave us three things to make life bearable: hope, jokes, and dogs, but the greatest of these was dogs.

Do not let kindness and truth leave you; Bind them around your neck, Write them on the tablet of your heart.