To become grateful, I must learn that I can handle disappointment and delayed gratification with grace and perseverance. This is why practices such as fasting and simplicity are such powerful tools for transformation. The experience of frustration and disappointment is irreplaceable in the development of a grateful heart.

When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it's done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.

What repeatedly enters your mind and occupies your mind, eventually shapes your mind, and will ultimately express itself in what you do and who you become.

Your Mission starts where you are,Not where you think you should be.Sometimes we're tempted to think that our current position/job/situation is a barrier to our mission, but, in fact, it is where it starts.

Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.

Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.

Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.