God doesn't need to have emergency meetings. He's never gathered the Trinity and asked 'What happened there'.

Apart from worshiping God, everything becomes superficial. But when you understand the driving force behind everything, all of a sudden there's an eternal amount of joy at our disposal, because everything we do is enlightened and enlivened by the endless glory of the eternal God.

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

So relational evangelism? Go for it, as long as it turns into real evangelism. You hanging out having a beer with your buddy so he can see that Christians are cool is not what we’re called to do. You’re eventually going to have to open up your mouth and share the gospel. When the pure gospel is shared, people respond.

The work of God in the cross of Christ strikes us as awe-inspiring only after we have first been awed by the glory of God.

There isn’t a violent soul on the planet that God might not save and transform for himself.

While we lament the apparent injustice of pain and suffering, how often do we forget that every good thing in a fallen world is wholly a gift of God's mercy and grace.