God is telling an amazing, glorious, epic story. We have to decide if we will trust Him with it...
Do everything you do to the glory of the One who made you.
God really does have a plan for every child that He knits together, even when they look broken to the world outside, when their story is broken, when their hearts are broken, when their bodies are broken. God still knit this child together with a plan.
God is God and I am not. I can only see a part of the picture He’s painting...
As soon as you’re willing to humble yourself and say, God, please help – then you can find out that His strength really is perfect, that He really does care for you, that He does really want to meet your need.
I don’t see the big picture. I don’t have a clue. But I know God does. I’m going to declare that, even if I don’t feel it right now.
There’s a day that is coming when all the last will be first and every orphan will be home.
If we walk with the wise, we will grow wise.
There is no greater love than this. There is no greater gift that can ever be given. To be willing to die, so another might live – there is no greater lover than this.
In the gospel, we discover we are far worse off than we thought, and far more loved than we ever dreamed.
As Christians, our compassion is simply a response to the love that God has already shown us.
When I go to Africa and spend more time there with people who are the least of the least, those in desperate situations, I am broken by it. But I also find people with so much more joy and freedom living with nothing than I see walking down the streets of my own community here in Tennessee.
Wherever we are, God’s in that moment, God’s speaking to us, and if we’ve just got our ears open and our antennas up, there’s no lack of inspiration. He’s not silent. We just have to be listening.
I think we all want to know that if our lives don’t turn out the way we imagine, there’s still a purpose.
There’s nothing like a good cheating song to make me want to run home to be with my wife.
Out of these ashes beauty will rise.
Success breeds volume, and it’s just amazing how many young writers, artists, and musicians there are in town.