You are a trophy of God's grace. He has future accomplishments with your name written on them.

Being born again happens in an instant. Learning to live as a child of God takes a lifetime.

Substance and content over style and hype any day.

Local churches are ten times more segregated than the neighborhoods they are in and they are twenty times more segregated than the schools than the nearby schools.

Jesus' epic work through his sinless life, atoning death, resurrection, and ascension, and the sending of the Spirit, was so that God could have an ethnically diverse family of Jews and Gentiles.

Only 13.7% of churches in America are consider multiethnic. This means that 86.3 % of churches are homogenous.

God will crush the pride out of us one way or another. He loves us, and His glory, too much not to do it.

I coach church planters to look at the ethnic diversity of schools and neighborhoods they are near. This will be an indicator how ethnically diverse their congregation can become.

Leaders are like point guards, we set people up to score.

We must, by God's grace, embody the vision. If not, we are duplicitous.

It's hard to sin if you're preoccupied with Jesus.

When I give the best of me, that becomes my legacy.

If your mind is not at peace you cannot find it anywhere else in the world.

Start. Don't make excuses. Celebrate small steps. Ignore critics. Be consistent. Be open. Be positive.

Abigail Adams is willing to risk her son's exposure to danger in Europe so that he can be at his fathers side, at an age where he can "most benefit from his father's example and precepts.

I don't think all buildings have to be iconic, but the history of the world has shown us that cultures build iconic buildings for their major public buildings.

If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs.

Thou wilt go now, rabbit. But I go with thee. As long as there is one of us there is both of us.

I was talking to Jesus, and I said, Jesus, I feel like no one will ever accept me. And Jesus looked at me and said, You know what my theory is? Accept me or go to hell.

I don't go by the rule book

Impassioned characters never attain their mark till they have overshot it.