In a world of upward mobility, choose downward servility.
The next time you’re disappointed, don’t panic. Don’t give up. Just be patient and let God remind you He’s still in control.
When grace happens, generosity happens. Unsquashable, eyepopping bigheartedness happens.
What is this love that endures decades, passes on sleep, and resists death to give one kiss? Call it agape love, a love that bears a semblance of God’s.
We will find grace to help us when we need it.
As long as you are stationary, no one will complain. Dogs don’t bark at parked cars.
The Bible is the story of two gardens. Eden and Gethsemane. In the first, Adam took a fall. In the second, Jesus took a stand.
Patience is more than a virtue for long lines and slow waiters. Patience is the red carpet upon which God’s grace approaches us.
Jesus spoke to those who had turned their backs on history. He spoke to those who had blatantly ignored sign after sign, servant after servant.
Stay strong! Your test will become your testimony, your mess will become your message.
It seems to me that election season is just a Petri dish for anger and cynicism.
You know people just assume, ‘Well, all my life I’ll be a worrier.’ That doesn’t have to be true. There’s a way to drink from God’s presence so much that worry begins to dissipate.
I think that a church should be setting the pace for social justice.
While we appreciate our ancestry as Americans or even our ethnic ancestry and our color of skin, we believe that our real citizenship is in Heaven.
Unmet expectations are tough when it’s your wife or your husband, but it’s really tough when it’s God. And yet, it can be a time of growth and a time of faith, a time of understanding who God is.
When you teach on a familiar text, you’re capitalizing on common knowledge. When you teach on an unfamiliar text, you’re having to build a bridge of understanding, and we need to do that as well.
God is using my struggle. My struggle is the answer to the prayer.
Most of my sermons are inspirational, and I believe people need that encouragement.
Be less about protecting any type of identity affiliated to a country or even ethnic background. Be more about the fact that we’re here for a short time and Heaven is going to be a rainbow of people, multiculture, every generation.
We just need the government to be that greenhouse that permits our faith to grow.