...if I do not introduce people to Jesus, then I don't believe Jesus is an important person. It doesn't matter what I say.

Our lives have a countdown clock that we can't see. Mine reminds me to only do work that matters.

Fear is a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life.

It is worthy of note that the Chinese and Japanese characters for money and gold are the same.

At the time, I didn't know what forgiveness meant. I wouldn't really know what forgiveness meant for another year, until my pastor, Rick McKinley, happened to spell it out in a sermon. He said that when you forgive, you bear the burden somebody has given you without holding them accountable.

There's a genius part of you that wants to create. That part of you wants to talk to God. Get out of the way.

Many of our attempts to understand Christian faith have only cheapened it. I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I made for breakfast understands the complexity of me. The little we do understand, that grain of sand our minds are capable of grasping, those ideas such as God is good, God feels, God loves, God knows all, are enough to keep our hearts dwelling on His majesty and otherness forever.