The primary purpose of prayer is not to get something, but to know Someone.

We learned that orphans are easier to ignore before you know their names. They are easier to ignore before you see their faces. It is easier to pretend they’re not real before you hold them in your arms. But once you do, everything changes.

This is the reality about humanity. We are each born with an evil, God-hating heart. Genesis 8: 21 says that every inclination of man's heart is evil from childhood, and Jesus' words in Luke 11: 13 assume that we know we are evil.

Salvation has absolutely nothing to do with human merit and absolutely everything to do with divine mercy.

Our possessions can be deadly. They can be subtly deadly.

Why not begin operating under the idea that God has given us excess, not so we could have more, but so we could give more?

Live today for what is going to matter 10 billion years from today.