For Jesus, who lived so lightly on this earth, He didn’t even have a place to lay His head. I want so deeply to be like You.

As Jesus explained, the right things have to die so the right things can live--we die to selfishness, greed, power, accumulation, prestige, and self-preservation, giving life to community, generosity, compassion, mercy, brotherhood, kindness, and love. The gospel will die in the toxic soil of self.

A fast is not necessarily something we offer God, but it assists us in offering ourselves

Our children are humans and deserve to be treated respectfully. Discipline doesn’t include raging, screaming, abusing, neglecting, humiliating, or shaming our kids. God never treats us like that. That sort of discipline never “produces a harvest of righteousness and peace.

There are only 24 hours in a day. We need to quit trying to be awesome and instead be wise.

When the jars of clay remember they are jars of clay, the treasure within gets all the glory, which seems somehow more fitting.

Usually the things we think we need become the very things we need a break from.