To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you're always trying to understand character and motives.

The story of your life is the story of the long and brutal assault on your heart by the one who knows what you could be and fears it.

Moses does not encounter the living God at the mall. He finds Him (or is found by Him) somewhere out in the deserts of Sinai, a long way from the comforts of Egypt... Where did the great prophet Elijah go to recover his strength? To the wild. As did John the Baptist, and his cousin, Jesus, Who is led by the Spirit into the wilderness.

Security is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of Jesus.

Most of us live in a fog. It's like life is a movie we arrived to 20 minutes late. You know something important seems to be going on. But we can't figure out the story. We don't know what part we're supposed to play or what the plot is.

In the end, it doesn’t matter how well we have performed or what we have accomplished—a life without heart is not worth living.

If only Jesus' followers shared his personality. That one shift alone would correct so many of the ridiculous and horrifying things that pass for popular Christianity.