When I go to dance clubs, I always dance with big girls, so we finish at the same time.
If Christ could make a complaint, it would be, "My bride never talks to me".
Why do bad things happen to good people? That only happened once and He volunteered.
He is intangible and invisible. But His work is more powerful than the most ferocious wind. The Spirit brings order out of chaos and beauty out of ugliness. He can transform a sin-blistered man into a paragon of virtue. The Spirit changes people. The Author of life is also the Transformer of life.
The greatest weakness in the church today is that the servants of God keep looking over their shoulder for the approval of men.
God just doesn't throw a life preserver to a drowning person. He goes to the bottom of the sea, and pulls a corpse from the bottom of the sea, takes him up on the bank, breathes into him the breath of life and makes him alive.
A god who is all love, all grace, all mercy, no sovereignty, no justice, no holiness, and no wrath is an idol.
I speak a lot about what I call "the trance of unworthiness" which is really epidemic in our culture, this sense of "I'm not enough," or "something's wrong with me. " Most of us have some level of it because our culture has all these standards (handed down through our families) of what it means to be okay.
It's a curious thing about our industry: not only do we not learn from our mistakes, we also don't learn from our successes.
Words spoken can not be recalled so think twice before you speak.
The impact of armed conflict on children is everyone's responsibility. And it must be everyone's concern.