To change your world, you must change your words. It's the rudder (James 3:4-5) of your life.

Most of us want to have enough... good works to get into heaven, but enough bad works to be fun.

It's easy to explain away evil. We have a free choice, and our greatest blessing is also our greatest curse, because I don't always make good choices. Other people make bad choices. I make bad choices. And sometimes we hurt other people. Sometimes intentionally, sometimes unintentionally.

If you want your life to have impact, focus it! Stop dabbling. Stop trying to do it all. Do less. Prune away even good activities and do only that which matters most. Never confuse activity with productivity. You can be busy without a purpose, but what's the point?

You must match your music to the kind of people God wants your church to reach.... The music you use 'positions' your church in your community. It defines who you are.... It will determine the kind of people you attract, the kind of people you keep, and the kind of people you lose.

You can't grow strong without resistance.

But no one who is lost has lost one ounce of value to God. Even if you don't have a relationship with him, you have immense value to God.