When we submit our lives to what we read in scripture, we find that we are not being led to see God in our stories but our stories in God's. God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves.

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.

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

The poor are not a problem to be solved but a people to join.

A person has to get fed up with the ways of the world before he, before she acquires an appetite for the world of grace.

I cannot fail to call the congregation to worship God, to listen to his Word, to offer themselves to God.

You're here to be LIGHT... Shine! Be generous with your lives.