People ask me, 'Why pray if God is sovereign?' I respond, 'Why pray if He isn't?

The goal of Christian mission is not success, but faithful witness; not power, but proclamation; not technique, but truth; not method, but message.

As we are brought into God's extraordinary kingdom through ordinary means, we are remade, no longer fashioned as competitors for commodities in a world of scarce resources, but as co-sharers with Christ in the circulation of gifts that flows outward from its source without running out.

If you want to be an athlete, there's no way around it: You have to go to the gym. You can't Google your way to it.

If the focus of our testimony is our changed life, we as well as our hearers are bound to be disappointed.

God is not a supporting actor in our life movie. We exist for his purposes, not the other way around.

But the heart of Christianity is Good News. It comes not as a task for us to fulfill, a mission for us to accomplish, a game plan for us to follow with the help of life coaches, but as a report that someone else has already fulfilled, accomplished, followed, and achieved everything for us.