To engage people in culture we must remember that holiness is separation from sin, not separation from sinners.

If you're regularly willing to give a critique, but not willing to take one, you're not a leader, you're a cynic.

Regrettably, we've made it acceptable to sit in church week after week & do nothing & still call yourself a 'Christian.'

A church without the broken is a broken church.

The Christian life is not about finding safety and comfort; it’s about finding yourself in a dangerous place of vulnerable compassion.

You cannot hate a people and reach a people at the same time.

Don't let your church be a cul-de-sac on the Great Commission highway.

Community is essential when it comes to successfully living out the Christian walk in a day-to-day context. So the math is simple: More community = More disciples.

If we demand things in worship that can't be in every culture, then we're demanding cultural preferences, not biblical.

Put your 'yes' on the table and let God put it on the map.

We have to assess: Are we making disciples along the way as we draw people to our churches?

This is the city of dreamers and time and again it's the place where the greatest dream of all, the American dream, has been tested and has triumphed.

When two great powers disagree about anything - it doesn't matter what - they must find a way to settle it somehow by arbitration or by negotiation, not by war or threat of war.

I think that one way of diffusing an insult is to turn it around and laugh at yourself - that's a way of coping with it - and another is to just ignore it.

Success is the most natural thing in the world. The person who does not succeed has placed himself in opposition to the laws of the Universe.

Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge.

Torture is such a slippery slope; as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get a situation where people are being tortured for very trivial reasons.

The Kite Runner is a story of two boys and a father, and the strange love triangle that binds them.

Love provided me with a tongue and tears.

The key to good decision making is not knowledge... It's whether our work fulfills us.

Don't measure the height of your Christmas tree. Measure the abundance of the love present in your heart! Have a Blessed Christmas!