“Worship is our response, both personal and corporate, to God for who He is, and what He has done; expressed in and by the things we say and the way we live.”

It’s time to blow out the candles on the pity party cake.

We may say we value this thing or that thing more than any other, but the volume of our actions speaks louder than our words.

The Word of God isn’t for one particular season. It’s for every season. But in its specific application, it’s best read from Thanksgiving to Christmas.

Life only works when Jesus is everything and we are fully submitted to Him.

God is using your present circumstances to make you more useful for later roles in His unfolding story.

Simply by our proximity to Jesus, we can bring hope and life to people and places trapped in discouragement and despair.

The wonderful living Word of God is more precious than anything else that we have.

You never shrink in stature by lifting someone else up.

The word advent means “expectation.” What advent can do for us is create a sense of hope.

God has plans and purposes for each of our lives. But the beauty is that He doesn’t call us and leave us on our own. Jesus actually lives in us to pull off the amazing things that He has invited us into.

Faithfully carry what God has put in your hands right now. This is God’s will.

God wants to do immeasurably more in & through your life than you could ask.

God is huge! He is ginormous! He is greater than every thought we have ever had of Him.

Worry and worship cannot exist in the same space. One always displaces the other. Choose worship.

Worship is when we give God His breath back.

Jesus doesn’t just want songs. He wants justice for the people on planet Earth.

And this is one of the major questions of our lives: how we keep boundaries, what permission we have to cross boundaries, and how we do so.

If a family is an expression of continuity through biology, a city is an expression of continuity through will amd imagination? through mental choices making artifice, not through physical reproduction.

Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.

Your words and wishes are cheap if they do not find expression in your actual gifts.

I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.

Every poet depends upon generations who wrote in his native tongue; he inherits styles and forms elaborated by those who lived before him. At the same time, though, he feels that those old means of expression are not adequate to his own experience.

Philistinism! – We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.

Commercial rock ‘n’ roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural expression.