"We have a God who is a Creator, not a duplicator."
"Our greatest fear as individuals & as a church should not be of failure, but of suceeding at things in life that dont really matter."
"We are a culture that relies on technology over community, a society in which spoken and written words are cheap, easy to come by, and excessive. Our culture says anything goes; fear of God is almost unheard of. We are slow to listen, quick to speak, and quick to become angry."
"Frederick Buechner writes, “Intellectually we all know that we will die but we do not really know it in the sense that the knowledge becomes a part of us. We do not really know it in the sense of living as thought it were true. On the contrary, we tend to live as though our lives would go on forever."
"God exists outside of time, and since we are within time, there is no way we will ever totally grasp that concept."
"And your own heart generates enough pressure as it pumps blood throughout your body that it could squirt blood up to 30 feet. (I’ve never tried this, and I don’t recommend it.)"
"God is the only being who is good, and the standards are set by Him. Because God hates sin, He has to punish those guilty of sin. Maybe that's not an appealing standard. But to put it bluntly, when you get your own universe, you can make your own standards."
"Lukewarm living and claiming Christ's name simultaneously is utterly disgusting to God."
"We never grow closer to God when we just live life. It takes deliberate pursuit and attentiveness."
"True faith means holding nothing back. It means putting every hope in God's fidelity to His Promises."
"The point of your life is to point to Him. Whatever you are doing, God wants to be glorified, because this whole thing is His."
"What we do reverberates through the heavens and into eternity."
"Not being able to fully understand God is frustrating but it is ridiculous for us to think we have the right to limit God to something we are capable of comprehending. What a stunted, insignificant god that would be! If my mind is the size of a soda can and God is the size of all the oceans, it would be stupid for me to say He is only the small amount of water I can scoop into my little can. God is so much bigger, so far beyond our time-encased, air/food/sleep-dependent lives."