T-shirts create a sense of “We”. Food says, “We don’t mind spending money on you.”
There is an appropriate way to use your story, not as an excuse but as a testimony to God’s ability to free you from the past.
Success is remaining faithful to the process God has laid out for you.
Peace is a fruit of the Spirit, not the byproduct of accumulated wealth.
Spiritual maturity is measured in terms of persevering faith, not perfect behavior.
Grace is inviting to the unrighteous and threatening to the self-righteous.
When a plan or strategy fails, people are tempted to assume it was the wrong vision. Plans and strategies can always be changed and improved. But vision doesn’t change. Visions are simply refined with time.
Do you think God can be trusted? Or do yo think you need to take things into your own hands?
When happiness points in one direction while wisdom, truth, integrity, and common sense point in another, that’s when really smart people start doing really stupid things.
Imagine a world where unbelievers were critical of what we believed but envious of how well we treated one another.
Guys that preach verse-by-verse through books of the Bible – that is just cheating. It’s cheating because that would be easy, first of all. That isn’t how you grow people. No one in the Scripture modeled that.
As believers, we all have the responsibility to leverage our wealth for kingdom purposes.
Appetites have only one word in their vocabulary – MORE. Appetites are never fully and finally satisfied. Even after the most satisfying meal imaginable, we eventually find ourselves rummaging through the pantry for a snack.
It is when our hearts are stirred that we become most aware of what they contain.
What percentage should you give? I tell people to start with 10 percent because the Bible writers have a lot to say about the tithe, which means, “tenth.” For some people, that’s extremely uncomfortable. But so is a colonoscopy, and those save countless lives.
God often showcases his power on the stage of human weakness.
Do for one what you wish you could do for everyone.
Vions are born in the soul of a man or woman who is consumed with the tension between what is and what could be.
We hurt most who we love the most. Bad grammar, painful truth.
We’re so absorbed in the effort to get rich, we no longer recognize when we are rich.