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

Sin doesn’t make you bad, it makes you dead.

Life is chaotic. It’s messy. That’s what Jesus was stepping into.

When you strip all of this down it’s just about a God in Heaven who loves you very much. And created in you a heart for Him, Your heart was fashioned by Jesus and for Jesus.

It doesn’t really matter how rich you are, we’re all just renting here on earth! It all belongs to the Lord.

My life is not about the set list, it is to be set apart.

When the enemy comes with shame and blame, tell him to go measure the distance from east to west and get back to you.

God didn’t say, ‘Be still and feel that I am God,’ He said, ‘Be still and know’.

The Word of God spoke into the dry bones. His breath filled them, put tendons (repair), and put skin on…Then you will know I am God…When Jesus comes that will happen.

Advent allows us to recover during this four-week journey. It begins four Sundays before Christmas all the way up to Christmas. It lets us breath in those moments of faithfulness and helps us recognize that God is working.

The Gospel is not about going from bad to good, it’s about going from dead to alive!

We are responsible for our captivity to sin. In our foolishness, we forget God. However, God intervenes!

Passion is the degree of difficulty we are willing to endure to accomplish the goal.

When we are foolish God intervenes.

You don’t have to know everything about the mountain in front of you to take the next step.

If you’ve been served by God, you’ve arrived.

God is coming to intersect us in our funeral processions.

Keep hope alive!

Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.

When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it’s alive; then they have the parts and they’ve lost the whole, for the link that’s missing was the living soul.

It’s always nice to have those WTF moments that keep us aware.

We always honor our people when they die; we’ve got to honor them while we’re still alive.

I want to be like Gandhi and Martin Luther King and John Lennon but I want to STAY ALIVE.

Fear will keep you alive in a war. Fear will keep you alive in business. There’s nothing wrong with fear.

The only thing I asked for now was to be alive tomorrow morning and to survive another day. That was all that mattered.