I don't write songs thinking about formats, where is it going to get played, who am I gonna please, what's the outlet for it.
A belief is something you will argue about. A conviction is something you will die for.
You teach what you know, but you reproduce what you are.
If you leave the church service thinking about how good the pastor was, he has missed the mark. If you leave consumed with Christ, the pastor has been used by the Lord.
Experience is not the best teacher; evaluated experience is.
God is not looking for more stars; He's looking for more servants.
People tell me they want to make the Bible relevant. Nonsense. The Bible's already relevant. You're the one that's irrelevant!
Legalistic remorse says, "I broke God's rules," while real repentance says, "I broke God's heart. "
Nothing, absolutely nothing, was above corruption so long as human beings were involved.
Lieutenant General Michael Flynn would fit into that broader pattern.
The public wants to understand and learn in a single day, a single minute, what the artist has spent years learning.