Great waves, and blaze with fire like them.In beauty, but do not condemn,The seamen who embark and fail,But only those who will not sail.

You never outgrow your need to preach to yourself the gospel.

Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't.

The gospel is the good news that the everlasting and ever-increasing joy of the never-boring, ever-satisfying Christ is ours freely and eternally by faith in the sin-forgiving death and hope-giving resurrection of Jesus Christ.

I've always wondered, am I a writer who preaches or a preacher who writes? I don't know. I love them both.

If you can't see the sun you will be impressed with a street light. If you've never felt thunder and lightning you'll be impressed with fireworks. And if you turn your back on the greatness and majesty of God you'll fall in love with a world of shadows and short-lived pleasures.

What defines us as Christians is not most profoundly that we have come to know him but that he took note of us and made us his own.