We've all met a certain type of spiritual person. She's a wonderful person. She loves the Lord. She prays and reads the Bible all the time. But all she thinks about is herself. She's not a selfish person. But she's always at the center of everything she's doing.

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

One way to define spiritual life is getting so tired and fed up with yourself you go on to something better, which is following Jesus.

The Bible makes it clear that every time that there is a story of faith, it is completely original. God's creative genius is endless.

Sabbath is that uncluttered time and space in which we can distance ourselves from our own activities enough to see what God is doing.

Pity is one of the noblest emotions available to human beings; self-pity is possibly the most ignoble . . . . [It] is an incapacity, a crippling emotional disease that severely distorts our perception of reality . . . a narcotic that leaves its addicts wasted and derelict.

Feelings are great liars. If Christians worshipped only when they felt like it, there would be precious little worship. We think that if we don’t feel something there can be no authenticity in doing it. But the wisdom of God says something different: that we can act ourselves into a new way of feeling much quicker than we can feel ourselves into a new way of acting. Worship is an act that develops feelings for God, not a feeling for God that is expressed in an act of worship.