When we see the bankruptcy, slavery, and vanity of everything else, we can finally say, ‘To die is gain.’

I was used to being the smartest guy in the room, and then God dropped me in a place that was well beyond me. It was painfully awesome.

Grace does not make sin safe. But grace does make sinners safe.

No matter what our job is, we view it not as our purpose in life but rather as where God has sovereignly placed us for the purpose of making Christ known and his name great. If you are a teacher, if you are a politician, if you are a businessman, if you are in agriculture, if you are in construction, if you are in technology, if you are in the arts, then you should not be saying, ‘I need to find my life’s purpose in this work,’ but rather, ‘I need to bring God’s purpose to this work.’

He can heal me. I believe He will. I believe I'm going to be an old surely Baptist preacher. And even if He doesn't...that's the thing: I've read Philippians 1. I know what Paul says. I'm here let's work, if I go home? That's better. I understand that.

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

If you are in Christ, you are fully and completely forgiven for all your sin-past, present and future.