“Advent is the season that can remind us God is working while we’re waiting and we’re really waiting with God.”

I believe that God is not lost. He is in the middle with us right now. If people will take a few moments and take this journey, hope will rise up in their hearts. I believe that.

There’s no doubt we were unworthy, but we were never worthless. Big difference.

Life comes from death. To the degree that I can live in the death of Jesus – to that degree I can channel God’s life to others.

Crazy is good. The alternative is normal.

God’s purposes and plans will not fail. Before you spend all your prayer time telling Him about yours, ask about His.

The Father doesn’t give life directions in one big bundle because the goal is knowing Him, not the plan.

If Jesus is here we are going to walk out of this place to live our lives to the glory of God the Father.

In the end, our worship is more about what we do than what we say.

If our worship isn’t visible, comprehensive and extravagant, the gospel we heard must have been tiny, empty and cheap.

If you have a story of grace, then you have a story of grace to tell.

If you’re waiting with God, waiting is okay. If you’re always waiting on God, you’ll be frustrated. God never seems to work at the speed that we want Him to.

Our scars are a witness to the world. They are apart of our story. Healed wounds that are symbols that God has restored us.

Who knows who’s waiting right now for one of us to invite them into God’s family?

The only wounds that define us are the wounds of Jesus Christ.

You never lose by giving it all to Jesus.

Not going to give casual worship to a God of extravagant beauty and grace!

Our world is obsessed with success. But how does God define success? Success in God’s eyes is faithfulness to His calling.

God is not looking for men of great faith, He is looking for common men to trust His great faithfulness.

There is an essential connection between experiencing God, loving God, and trusting God. You will trust God only as much as you love him. And you will love him to the extent you have touched him, rather that he has touched you.

Jesus reveals a God who does not demand but who gives; who does not oppress but who raises up; who does not wound but who heals; who does not condemn but forgives.

I believe with all my heart God’s Story has a happy ending. . . But not yet, not necessarily yet. It takes faith to hold on to that in the face of the great burden of experience, which seems to prove otherwise.

To create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.

God’s presence is all that matters.

Who can sleep on the night that God became man?