Have you read your Bible or has the Bible read you?

There's a strong victim mentality in my generation. I think it's spiritual laziness. They will agree that God is sovereign over all, but then they will say, "Well, I wish he would sovereignly take away my lust issue." There's just not a lot of fortitude, not a lot of fight in them.

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

I learned very early that people need to have a good grasp of God's goodness and God's sovereignty.

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

In essence, we are reconciled to reconcile.

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.