Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.

The goal of prayer is to live all of my life and speak all of my words in the joyful awareness of the presence of God. Prayer becomes real when we grasp the reality and goodness of God's constant presence with 'the real me.' Jesus lived his everyday life in conscious awareness of his Father.

A bad sermon is like a car wreck - everyone slows down to see what happened.

We are too often double espresso followers of a decaf Sovereign.

What matters is not the accomplishments you achieve; what matters is the person you become.

One of the great misconceptions about spiritual growth that develops in a lot of churches is that information alone is adequate to produce transformed human beings. So if we want to have a church of spiritually mature people, let's just keep cramming more and more information into them... Information alone is not adequate for the transformation of the human personality.

God is so immense that if he were 'too visible,' people would give forced compliance without expressing their heart. So God made it possible, in enormous love, for us to live as if he were not there.