Love is the kind of welcome that doesn’t wait for you to come. It actually goes out in search of you.
Favor does not mean a free pass or immunity from hardships, suffering, and trials. Favor means the strong superintending presence of the Lord in the midst of them.
When we do what we do “unto the Lord” without regard for either impressing people or embarrassing ourselves, people pay attention.
Our work need not be considered outside the realm of our faith—it must be integrated and operating appropriately within it.
Real leaders do the hard work of cultivating holy instincts, which is to say an imagination steeped in the “nothing is impossible with God” possibilities of the Holy Spirit.
The story of Scripture and the Church is filled with perfect storms—the collision of chaos and circumstance; where our panic meets the providence of God.
Satan gets credited with a lot of natural phenomenon he probably has nothing to do with.
The variety of Christian kindness done unto Jesus himself is within our reach today, if only we will reach for it.
Sometimes what seem like the longest and most difficult (and even wasted) seasons in life turn out in retrospect to be both the shortest and most significant. It takes perspective to see it.
Jesus did not promise us a life free from calamities and injustices and all variety of problems.
Paul knew the gospel with an irrefutable verity, so he felt an urgency to share it with everyone he possibly could.
We want truth to be scientifically verifiable to the point that it requires nothing resembling faith.
