To procrastinate obedience is to disobey God.

Too often we assume that God has increased our income to increase our standard of living, when his stated purpose is to increase our standard of giving. (Look again at 2 Corinthians 8:14 and 9:11).

In the midst of prosperity, the challenge for believers is to handle wealth in such a way that it acts as a blessing, not a curse.

Someday this upside-down world will be turned right side up. Nothing in all eternity will turn it back again. If we are wise, we will use our brief lives on earth positioning ourselves for the turn.

Are we truly obeying the command to love our neighbor as ourselves if we're storing up money for potential future needs when our neighbor is laboring today under actual present needs?

If we can keep ourselves from interfering with the natural laws of life, mistakes can be our child's finest teachers.

Why ask for your daily bread when you own the bakery?

A disciple does not ask, "How much can I keep?" but, "How much more can I give?" Whenever we start to get comfortable with our level of giving, it's time to raise it again.

Wealth is a relational barrier. It keeps us from having open relationships.

Unless we learn how to humbly tell each other our giving stories, our churches will not learn to give.

Whenever we have excess, giving should be our natural response. It should be the automatic decision, the obvious thing to do in light of Scripture and human need.

We make Idols of our concepts, but Wisdom is born of wonder

By loving the broken parts in you, I learn to love the broken parts in me. I learn that we are not broken after all.

The giant step in the walk of faith is the one we take when we decide God no longer is a part of our lives. He IS our life.

Lil Wayne is the best rapper on Earth. Can't nobody touch him. He's the only guy who can put out 300 songs a year and they all fire.

The man who gives me employment, which I must have or suffer, that man is my master, let me call him what I will.

A new type of superstition has got hold of people's minds, the worship of the state.

Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children.

We are small but we are many We are many we are small We were here before you rose We will be here when you fall

Sometimes you have go into a movie and develop a certain type of chemistry with your co-stars. Sometimes it can click from "Hello" and other times it takes a few weeks to develop that.

If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.