If Jesus gives us a task or assigns us to a difficult season, every ounce of our experience is meant for our instruction and completion if only we'll let Him finish the work. I fear, however, that we are so attention-deficit that we settle for bearable when beauty is just around the corner.

When God's Word is deliberately internalized, it will be authentically externalized because it's no longer what we do - it's part of who we are.

Men are not our problem; it's what we are trying to get from them that messes us up. We use guys like mirrors to see if we're valuable.

Kindness is willing to look in the face of the hurting.

God wants to bring victory to a people who recognize who brought it.

When we detach the Word of God from the heart of God, we miss the point of God.

A bruised heart that chooses to beat with a passion for God amid pulsing pain and confusion may just be the most expensive offering placed on the divine altar.