A silly remark can be made in Latin as well as in Spanish.
The glory of the gospel is this: The one from whom we need to be saved is the one who has saved us.
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.
Rather, it is through conciliation and compromise that we are building a fair Iraq, a just state for all its peoples.
There is one thing that freezes a musician more than the deadliest physical cold, and that is the spiritual chill of an unresponsive audience!
I sort of have various sort of theories when people ask me about songwriting because it is a mystery. You don't really know. Sometimes you can do it and sometimes you can't. It's really peculiar.
I don't want to ever say to somebody, 'You don't have to see it. It's not good. ' I'm done with that. I'd love to just do things that I respect. That being said, I do have two children to put through school, so we'll see if I can put my money where my mouth is, but I would love to just work with people I respect.