God is the ultimate steward. He even turns our tears into the seeds of a hope filled future.
A private victory leads to a public victory and a corporate blessing, because God turns His face toward those who will demonstrate character when no one is looking.
Skills can be taught. It’s tough to teach heart. Talent is fairly common.
Religion idolizes concepts and avoids personal experience.
Fear looks like wisdom to those without risk.
It is unnatural for a Christian not to have an appetite for the impossible.
Once you’ve left the concept of family, you’ve left the concept of kingdom.
Part of our problem is this: we are accustomed only to doing things for God that are not impossible.
Jesus is the most normal Christian in the Bible.
Automatically thinking ‘everything that happens is God’s will’ is a lazy way to live. We live in a war. Jesus wasn’t fighting the Father’s will when He raised the dead.
A powerless church has nothing for the devil to counterfeit.
Beware ‘good’ main characters who have a limited repertory of culturally acceptable feelings, while your evil bastards have a full range of vivid, passionate feelings.
Jesus is returning for a bride whose body is in equal proportion to her head.
If we rejoice in the acts of God without discovering His ways, we’ll question who He is when He doesn’t do what we’ve asked.
We always become like the one we worship!
The favor of God does not bless self-promotion.
Grace does not overlook sin, it empowers righteousness!
People of excellence will always be brought before people of influence.
A culture of honor is celebrating who a person is without stumbling over who they’re not.
Great faith doesn’t come out of great effort, but out of great surrender.