In 10,000 years you will not regret anything you didn’t have or do in this life.

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.

I don't believe in the end that God gave me cancer, but He certainly could have stopped it and didn't.

Discipline will never bring about love for God, but love for God will bring about discipline.

Heaven is not a place for those who are afraid of hell; it’s a place for those who love God.

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.’

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.