Isn't it interesting that all of the biblical prophets and psalmists were poets?

If people don't know their pastor, it's easy to put the pastor on a pedestal and depersonalize him or her. It's also easy for pastors, who don't know their congregations, simply to classify congregants as saved or unsaved, involved or not involved, tithers or non-tithers.

The silence that makes it possible to hear God speak also makes it possible for us to hear the world's words for what they really are - tinny and unconvincing lies.

I will not try to run my own life or the lives of others; that is God's business.

Worship is an act that develops feelings for God, not a feeling for God that is expressed in an act of worship.

I didn't write because I had anything to say, but in order to find out what there was to say.

O God, when my faith gets overladen with dust, blow it clean with the wind of your Spirit. When my habits of obedience get stiff and rusty, anoint them with the oil of your Spirit. Restore the enthusiasm of my first love for you.