Your most effective ministry will come out of your deepest hurts.

Telling others how they can have eternal life is the greatest thing you can do for them.

The fact is, ministry is too unpredictable to be motivated by security. It’s too unprofitable to be motivated by money. It’s too demanding to be motivated by pleasure, and it’s too criticized to be motivated by fame. Our ministry should be motivated by the pleasure of God, and God is pleased when we have a ministry powered by faith.

When you feel nothing, God is teaching you to live by faith.

Much of what happens in our world is evil and bad, but God specializes in bringing good out of it.

In the fall literally everything is broken. Nothing on this planet works. Every body is broken, none of our bodies works perfectly. Every relationship is broken. The weather is broken. I don't have a problem with hurricanes. Nothing works on this planet. This is not heaven, this is Earth and that is why we are to pray thy will be done on Earth as it is in heaven. Why? Because God's perfect will is done perfectly in heaven. So I am to pray that done here.

The church that doesn't want to grow is saying to the world, "go to hell."