Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
When I teach the formal curriculum, I have the chance to think about it ahead of time. I can rehearse it. I can illustrate it with self-deprecating humor and humble-sounding personal disclosure. I can try to make it comes out just right.
A bad sermon is like a car wreck - everyone slows down to see what happened.
The possibility of transformation is the essence of hope.
God is not interested in our spiritual life. He's interested in our life.
People who are servants-humbly, honestly, and joyfully-keep getting revealed as the biggest winners. People who recognize and embrace their smallness keep getting bigger and bigger in God's eyes. It's the oddest scoring system.