Prayer is never just an emergency flare or desperate anxious gamble. God's attention is not based on our performance but parental love.

If you wait until your motives are pure and unselfish before you do something, you will wait forever.

What you do in secret tells you who your God is.

Money isn't an idol. It just shows you where your idols are.

Just because you can't see or imagine a good reason why God might allow something to happen doesn't mean there can't be one.

We deserve to be forgotten because we forget Him. But because Jesus died on the cross, we will never, ever be forgotten by God.

All I know is, if I don't care about the poor, if my church doesn't care about the poor, that's evil.