The Bible isn't a storybook with many heroes. No, there's only one hero in Scripture: the Son, the Lamb, the Savior, the King, the Redeemer - Jesus.

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.

It's easier to face the camera than life. As in the former the script is known.

How much you are able to learn is determined by how much you are involved, how much you participate, and how many actions you take.

Unless you bear with the faults of a friend you betray your own.

And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping? I'm working.

I fantasized about being a psychology major when I first started school, and I took a handful of Psych 101 classes.

Rap is always evolving. It's easy for the old school to hate the new school, but it's a music that got a little stifled I think, by the Internet a little bit.

And my problem was that I always tried to go in everyone's way but my own.

On the top of each peak you are on the edge of the abyss

Death, but not for you, gunslinger. Never for you. You darkle. You tinct. May I be brutally frank? You go on.

I have English family in Northhampton and have been to England numerous times.