Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.

Caring for our own hearts isn't selfishness; it's how we begin to love.

For after years of living in a cage, a lion no longer even believes it is a lion . . . and a man no longer believes he is a man.

Have you thought about His (God) handling of the gospel? God needs to get a message out to the human race, without which they will perish...foreve r. What's the plan? First, He starts with the most unlikely group ever: a couple of prostitutes, a few fishermen with no better than a second-grade education, a tax collector. Then, he passes the ball to us. Unbelievable.

The meaning of our lives is revealed through experiences that at first seem at odds with each other--moments we wish would never end and moments we wish had never begun.

We have no idea who we really are. Whatever glory bestowed, whatever glory is being restored, we thought the whole Christian thing was about... something else. Trying not to sin. Going to church. Being nice. Jesus says it is about healing your heart, setting it free, restoring your glory. A religious fog has tried to veil all that, put us under some sort of spell or amnesia, to keeup us from coming alive.

A man's calling is written on his true heart, and he discovers it when he enters the frontier of his deep desires.