"God doesn't want meerly action but hearts driving action."
"Could it be that God is so intensely personal that He would burn down your world in hopes of building it back?"
"What has defined our faith since the beginning is open-ended gladness."
"It is an EVIL thing to be an expert in the weaknesses of our brothers and sisters. We need to be experts in the strengths of our brothers and sisters."
"The engine that drives all your activities is hope. What you hope in shapes you."
"Even though every identity marker I have can be taken from me, the grace and peace of the Trinity overflows into the life of the believer."
"I've grown more OK with mystery as I've gotten older."
"The net that catches me when I confront traumatic events is that 10,000 years from now, they will be a reason for rejoicing."
"Institutions and cultures are not immortal. Humans, Christian and non-Christian, are. Compared to us, our country is a gnat."
"There are few things more ungodly than fake joy when you should be mourning."
"If you look at Isis beheading women and children, if you are like me, you are not thinking, one of these would make a great missionary."
"It's so much more than a child's story. - Matt Chandler on LIFE Today."
"When we heed God's Word, we are rejecting how the world tries to disciple us."
"A bad song you can't forget is called an earworm. The way to get rid of an earworm is to deliberately remember an equally awful song."
"Privileged people can fall into the trap of universalizing experiences and laying them across other people’s experiences as an interpretive lens."
"Church is not meant to be fun. It's meant to be formative."
"You are being discipled by something."
"One of the big lies with sin is that we are already waist-deep and might as well just plunge in."
"The spiritual power in the gospel is denied when we augment or adjusting gospel into no gospel at all. When we doubt the message alone is the power of God for salvation we start adding or subtracting, trusting our own powers of persuasion or presentation."
"I am praying that the issues from the last 12 generations go into the ground with me so I have NEW issue is to pass on to my son."
"The Word of God bares weight on all ages always."
"God's people are the stage upon which His forgiveness becomes visible. They are never more authentic than when they ask for forgiveness and forgive others."
"As we gaze on Christ, the mind is informed, and the heart is inflamed, and the body begins to line up."
"I think "HALLELUJAH" translates into "HALLELUJAH" in every language out there."
"Adoration drives obedience, but throughout history people are prone to forget the faithfulness of God yesterday."