“The primary goal of spiritual life is human transformation.”

God has entrusted us with his most precious treasure – people. He asks us to shepherd and mold them into strong disciples, with brave faith and good character.

A bad sermon is like a car wreck – everyone slows down to see what happened.

Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.

You must arrange your days so that you are experiencing deep contentment, joy and confidence in your everyday life with God.

Imagine watching all that God might have done with your life if you had let him.

The life of Abraham Lincoln is by most accounts an amazing study in character formation. Yet he was notoriously disorganized; he even had a file in his law office labeled If you can’t find it anywhere else, try looking here.

In reality, each thought we have carries with it a little spiritual power, a tug toward or away from God. No thought is purely neutral.

When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it’s done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.

Ever console or scold people hurt in human relationships that satisfaction comes from God alone? Stop. Adam’s fellowship with God was perfect, and God Himself declared Adam needed other humans.

God sees with utter clarity who we are. He is undeceived as to our warts and wickedness. But when God looks at us that is not all He sees. He also sees who we are intended to be, who we will one day become.

What repeatedly enters your mind and occupies your mind, eventually shapes your mind, and will ultimately express itself in what you do and who you become.

sometimes we do not realize how much we have to be grateful for until it is threatened.

Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.

Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.

Jesus associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.

It only makes sense to ask God for guidance in the context of a life committed to “seeking first the kingdom.”

I’ve always sort of marveled at our ability to chat and match, because of, I come, honestly

Sister Maria Martinez whom I believe I’ve mentioned before has been giving me cooking classes.

For after years of living in a cage, a lion no longer even believes it is a lion, and a man no longer believes he is a man.

When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.

Yet, after millennia of slavery by selfish/callous humans they’re made to look dumb! The ‘superior species’ in their situations would, too, appear ‘dumb’.

A leader enables people to love and honor the role they play in the organization or group they are part of.

Sweet is war to those who know it not.

We are created for adventure, and if we cannot find one, we start blowing things out of proportion so it feels like we have one.