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.

Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.

God is still in the business of coming down to earth: to this cubicle, this email, this room, this house, this job, this hospital room, this car, this bed, this vacation. Any place can become Bethel, the house of God. Cleveland, maybe. Or the chair you're sitting in as you read these words.

The Bible does not say you are God’s appliance; it says you are his masterpiece. Appliances get mass-produced.

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

One of the hardest things in the world is to stop being the prodigal son without turning into the elder brother.

God is not interested in our spiritual life. He's interested in our life.