The mega-strategy of Jesus: make disciples.

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.

Look: each moment is a cradle and a casket: may all life and all death seem strange and new to you.

If you ever leave me I'll go with you.

The future is the past in preparation.

The biotechnology wave is similar to the information technology wave of the 1980s and 1990s.

Long before we discovered mirrors and photographs, our mothers' reflections provided us with the earliest glimpses of our female identity.

So I went off on my own and started the process of spiritual teaching.

It’s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else’s story.

Sometimes I like to think that characters you play are all the other people you could've been in a lifetime.

No poem is intended for the reader, no picture for the beholder, no symphony for the listener.

The Bill of Rights never gets off the page and into the lives of most Americans.