At your church, the week is more important than the weekend. Empower people and send them out for the week.

True worship is obedience to God for no other reason than that you delight in God.

Focusing on what we ought to do for God creates only frustration and exhaustion; focusing on what Jesus has done for us produces abundant fruit. Resting in what Jesus has done for us releases the revolutionary power of the gospel.

The amount which you understand the gospel is measured by your ability to be joyful in all circumstances. If you grasp what a treasure the presence and acceptance of God are, then even when life goes really wrong you will have a joy that sustains you, because you’ll recognize the value of what you have in Him. When life punches you in the face, you’ll say, ‘But I still have the love and acceptance of God, a treasure I don’t deserve.’ And the joy you find in that treasure can make you rejoice even when you have a bloody nose. You have a joy that death and depravation cannot touch.

Often the strongest evidence of my growth in grace is my growth in the knowledge of my need for grace.

God calls us first... not to a platform, but to an altar!

When something becomes so important to you that it drives your behavior and commands your emotions, you are worshipping it.