Worship should not be primarily about the worship leader up front, but about the worship leader serving as a conduit to allow the family of God to sing together to their Creator.

The family of God is the choir, and God is their audience.

All ages serve and worship the same God, gather under the same gospel and add to the collective song that praises the faithfulness of God as each generation shares in his promises to us.

We must have something of substance to say in our worship [services] that reminds us why Christ's story is so unique and so utterly essential.

Blue grass was the outgrowth of Irish music. As a matter of fact a lot the tunes, a lot of the melodies and the jigs... have different names but are actually the same tunes.

There are times that people can be so blinded by what they want IT to be, that whatever reality they perceieve it SHOULD be, they lose.

Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things.

The only way to fight the darkness around us is to light a fire within us.

The bliss of the elect in heaven would not be perfect unless they were able to look across the abyss and enjoy the agonies of their brethren in eternal fire.

As long as we encourage a culture of victim hood, said Monty, with the rhythmic smoothness of self-quotation, we will continue to raise victims. And so the cycle of underachievement continues.

We love peace, but not peace at any price.

I don't want to fight aging; I want to take good care of myself, but plastic surgery and all that? I'm not interested.

It's nice to be part of something that could grow into something else and be there at the beginning of it.

Secrecy destroys accountability.

People are no different from flowers. If you water them, they flourish. If you are not nice to them, they shrivel up