“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.”

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.

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

You never lose by giving it all to Jesus.

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

God is not a taker. God is a giver.

Every great thing requires a great sacrifice.

This is the residue of sin on planet earth. Things are broken. People are hurting. The night is here. Darkness is upon us. Yet shining in the night is a Savior, and He has come to shine on you.

Every Christian became a missionary the moment God breathed his Spirit into him or her.

God spoke to me.” Don’t let the voice of the darkness, tell you that you are not worth that God would not speak to you. Don’t let him tell you, you don’t matter. God spoke to you.

Hear Jesus as a family and serve Him. Care about people and love people.

the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist’s concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.

There is, clearly, both enormous hunger for the work thus being diffused, and an explosion of creative energy, bursting through the coercive choicelessness of the system on whose boundaries we are working.

And for the moment the whole burden of the war rested on the few hundred German fighter pilots on the Channel coast.

And then you’ll consume them however you can. For example, I don’t really watch Showtime, but I bought ‘Homeland,’ and I’ve been watching every episode on my iPad.

It’s just funny that Americans have to contend with 2000 channels, and 60 different specific news sources, and the confusion that it creates, and the junk that we get to see is hilarious.

I think where it’s going is toward what the music industry is like, where channels will be considered more like labels that carry the type of TV show that you like

They are easier to write when I am impassioned and angry. It is a good way to channel that negative energy.

Chanting is a way of getting in touch with yourself. It’s an opening of the heart and letting go of the mind and thoughts. It deepens the channel of grace, and it’s a way of being present in the moment.