Giving up something now for something better later is not a sacrifice. It is an investment.

There are some rich people who, no matter how much God sends their way, never seem to put their hope in their riches.

Our culture highlights all the trouble, all the drama, all the affairs and all the junk. Do not believe for a minute that any of that reflects reality. That does not have to be your future. The handwriting is not written on the wall.

While generosity may be the antidote for the dizzying effects of wealth, your appetite for more may function as an antidote against God-honoring generosity. Your appetite for more stuff, status, and security has the potential to quash your efforts to be generous. And that's a problem.

Jesus did not predict a place. Jesus predicted a people.

If you capture someone's heart, you will eventually get his hands and feet as well.

You cannot communicate complicated information to large groups of people. As you increase the number of people, you have to decrease the complexity of the information.