A person may forget 90% of what a leader says, but he will never forget how the leader lives.

Our presuppositions shape our perspective, our perspective shapes our priorities, and our priorities shape our practice.

Jesus is the prime exemplar of life in God's presence. He lived out of an awareness of the identity God had given him, not the identity the world wanted to give him; he led an active, ongoing prayer life; he took time apart from the world to be with his Father; he made his Father's agenda his agenda; he made his Father's love for people evident in tangible ways; and so on. These are all characteristics that we should emulate in our lives.

A person may forget 90% of what a leader says, but he will never forget how the leader lives.

Because of Christ, even our catastrophes have purpose. God is preparing our character for the time when we will see Him face to face.

When we see through the lens of God's truth, revealed primarily in his Word, everything comes into sharper focus. Suddenly, we'll see that everything is integrated and overlapping - that the world is not divided between the sacred and the secular, but there's one life, and God is the Master of all of it. God knows all things, past, present, and future, and is all-wise; when we train ourselves to see more as he sees, we'll pursue the things he values and seek to live before him as our primary audience.

There are two kinds of people in the world: those who seek God and those who seek to avoid him... and both will be successful.