Anyone we come in contact with, we either offer them life, or we drain them.

Suffering, failure, loneliness, sorrow, discouragement, and death will be part of your journey, but the Kingdom of God will conquer all these horrors. No evil can resist grace forever.

Tragedy is that our attention centers on what people are not, rather than on what they are and who they might become.

Our huffing and puffing to impress God, our scrambling for brownie points, our thrashing about trying to fix ourselves while hiding our pettiness and wallowing in guilt are nauseating to God and are a flat denial of the gospel of grace.

The gospel will persuade no one unless it has so convicted us that we are transformed by it.

Don't try to understand it. You won't succeed. Don't try to see it. You can't. Try to live it, and you will be living out of the center.

There is an extraordinary power in storytelling that stirs the imagination and makes an indelible impression on the mind.