“You never shrink in stature by lifting someone else up.”

There is a direct correlation between your appreciation of what Christ has done for you and the expression of worship.

Yet, Jesus is selfless in the way He gives His life away for you. So if your gaze is on Him, you will treat others as He is treating you.

God isn’t waiting on our memo. He is waiting on us to focus enough on Him that we get His memo.

I’m dead in the water if I can’t see the all sufficient glory of God.

If only everyone could know we’ve been created by and for God! If only we could all comprehend that we’re precious to Him, housing mirrored souls designed to reflect His glory.

Why are all Christians happy and praising Jesus? It’s because we are not DEAD! We may be imperfect, but we aren’t DEAD!

If there’s a perfect family out there, we’re all happy for that family. But most families aren’t perfect. Most families are living with some sort of challenge or some sort of difficulty.

It’s not the elements of our worship that are awesome. It’s the object of our worship Who is awesome.

God calls each and every star by name. It’s not likely He has forgotten yours.

It is because of our foolishness that we forget who God is.

Thank you Jesus you are a stone mover. And you can move any stone away.

Sin doesn’t make us bad, sin makes us dead. The gospel doesn’t make us better, the gospel makes us alive.

Worship is our response to what we value most. As a result, worship fuels our actions, becoming the driving force of all we do.

As an overflow of my life – the wake I leave behind with my little dash on earth – I want others to fall in love with Jesus and know of His great hope and purpose for their lives.

Humility is not a character trait to develop, it’s the natural by-product of being with Jesus.

Whenever you say ‘yes’ to anything, there is less of you for something else. Make sure your ‘yes’ is worth the less.

The truth is, the greatest tool to lift children and families from poverty is one that decreases the probability of child poverty by 82%. But it isn’t a government spending program. It’s called marriage.

I get up every morning and say, ‘Father, give me strength today, not strength so I can lift 500 pounds, but give me strength.

I’m so tough and so bad, I can be humble and lift another guy up.

As I lift up my eyes to Him and accept it as coming from the throne of God for some great purpose of blessing to my own heart.

Authenticity and sincerity were the most important unifying principles of all these apparently different essays.

I reached for some principle that had been subconscious in me and lifted it into consciousness.

I would still be singing, because it’s part of my heart and my soul, and it lifts me up.

And no one lifts a hand.