When God saves you, he doesn’t do it because you gave him permission. He did it because he’s God.

The drug of choice in the modern age is levity. We want everything to be light and bubbly. We just want to feel good.

Engaging the city around us and ministering to its needs reveal to us the remaining bastions of sin in our lives, the areas we refuse to surrender to God.

Jesus doesn't need you to make him palatable...he needs you to be faithful.

Every missionary I know is extraordinarily ordinary. Everything they do, they do by the grace of God.

The glory of God is that you can't outs in His grace.

God is at work in the mess. That's the message of the Bible. That's why the Bible is not pretty. That's why it's grimy, because God is working in the mess. He's working in the tears.