Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire.

Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.

The only person who dares wake up a king at 3:00 AM for a glass of water is a child. We have that kind of access

Think like a prophet, serve like a priest, and plan like a king.

The basic premise of religion– that if you live a good life, things will go well for you– is wrong. Jesus was the most morally upright person who ever lived, yet He had a life filled with the experience of poverty, rejection, injustice, and even torture.

If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all that he said; if he didn't rise from the dead, then why worry about any of what he said? The issue on which everything hangs is not whether or not you like his teaching but whether or not he rose from the dead.

Living is giving....If you spend your money on yourself, you are just surviving. But if you want your life to count, if you want to really live - give.