The more you make this world about you, the more miserable you will be.

The great message that we call the gospel begins, then, not with us, or our need, or even the meeting of that need, but with the writer of the news and the sender of its heralds: God himself.

The Imperfect Pastor by Zack Eswine might be the most helpful and profound book I've read in years. If you're in pastoral ministry grab a copy.

Where your delight is, the rest of your world is going to follow.

Without a heart transformed by the grace of Christ, we just continue to manage external and internal darkness.

If you're a beast in the pulpit but a coward in your neighborhood, something has gone wrong.

My sin in the past: forgiven. My current struggles: covered. My future failures: paid in full all by the marvelous, infinite, matchless grace found in the atoning work of the cross of Jesus Christ.