“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.”

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.

Sin has a way of shrinking God down and puffing ourselves up.

It’s a big world. Don’t get trapped by tiny dreams and feeble problems. Time for big prayers and bold faith.

Nothing steals God’s glory more than worrying believers who are driven through life by fear.

Christ didn’t die just so you could make to heaven; He lives so you can make it through earth!

Be a bit of a challenge; not because you’re playing games but because you realize you’re worth the extra effort.

Meditation helps you stay in a calm, clear-headed state so that when challenges come at you, you can deal with them like a ninja – in a calm thoughtful way. When you’re centered, your emotions are not hijacking you.

Its was one of those events which at a crucial stage in one’s development arrive to challenge and stretch one to the limit of one’s ability and beyond, so that thereafter one has a new standard by which to judge oneself.

Anything we experience, no matter how challenging, can become an open pathway to awakening.

I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge.

The opposite of fear is love – love of the challenge, love of the work, the pure joyous passion to take a shot at our dream and see if we can pull it off.

Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it’s a challenge to the moral imagination.

Now, I am perfectly willing to just enjoy my career by choosing roles simply because I consider them to be a challenge and doing the best possible job I can.