The only thing more important than ministry is being ministered to.

We can stop pleading with God to show us the future, and start living and obeying like we are confident that He holds the future.

Most everyone I know feels frazzled and overwhelmed most of the time.

Live for God. Obey the Scriptures. Think of others before yourself. Be holy. Love Jesus. And as you do these things, do whatever else you like, with whomever you like, wherever you like, and you'll be walking in the will of God.

God knows everything. So why not run to him and tell him all the things that he already knows?

It’s all too easy to turn the fight of faith into sanctification-by-checklist. Take care of a few bad habits, develop a couple good ones, and you’re set. But a moral checklist doesn’t take into consideration the idols of the hearts. It may not even have the gospel as part of the equation. And inevitably, checklist spirituality is highly selective. So you end up feeling successful at sanctification because you stayed away from drugs, lost weight, served at the soup kitchen, and renounced Styrofoam. But you’ve ignored gentleness, humility, joy, and sexual purity.

Many in Jesus' day saw him, but they didn't have communion with him. You can have more of Christ by faith than they had by sight.