The minute you hear a sermon on materialism, you're glad somebody else is there to hear it.

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.

Meanwhile 1st April to lie as if they were honest throughout the year.

Sometimes you just have to stop and take in your surroundings. Really look at where you are in life, otherwise it's just going to pass you by. Regret is a heavy word to live with." - Riley

Referring to an event in an untold story is a powerful technique rarely used.

Don't let failure or disappointment cut you off from God or make you think that the future is hopeless. When God closes one door, He often opens another door - if we seek it.

If I'm looking really intense, it's not because I'm trying to be mystical. It's because I'm thinking '[Dagnabit], that was supposed to be a 7th chord'.

When I get on the airplane, I put on the eye mask. And I travel a lot so I use it all the time.

Live in your hopes and not in your fears.

Unhappiness is too common to call for special measures.

The things that get rewarded, get done

Everyone seems to be in a kind of accelerated time mode that is beyond their own control.