We were made to live in a posture of grateful worship, and when we live in praise we live our purpose, and all the pieces fall in place, us all falli….

I think God calls us to small things, to faithfulness right where we are, to just do the next thing..

In a world addicted to speed, I blur the moments into one unholy smear..

Thanksgiving creates abundance..

Satan’s sin becomes the first sin of all humanity: the sin of ingratitude. Adam and Eve are, simply, painfully, ungrateful for what God gave. Isn’t….

I think it was simply word of mouth that made it a New York Times bestseller for more than 60 weeks, over a year. People being moved and changed and ….

And the earth under your feet, the rain over your face upturned, the stars spinning all around you in the brazen glory: this is for you, you, you. Th….

You've got to use the life you've been given to give others life.

But, someone, please give me—who is born again but still so much in need of being born anew—give me the details of how to live in the waiting cocoon ….

The only way to care for the disadvantaged - is to disadvantage yourself -which is guaranteed to turn out for your advantage..

More important than a clean house is a close family..

Worry is belief gone wrong. Because you don't believe that God will get it right. But peace - peace is belief that exhales. Because you believe that ….

Life is so urgent and necessitates living slow. It's only the amateurs-and that I've been, and it's been ugly-who thinks slow and urgent are contradi….

When we lay the soil of our hard lives open to the rain of grace and let joy penetrate our cracked and dry places, let joy soak into our broken skin ….

The Word God wastes nothing and He heals two broken hearts with one story - the reader and the writer..

But wells don't come without first begging to see the wells; wells don't come without first splitting open hard earth, cracking back the lids. There'….

Every mountain that every Christian ever faces, the Lord levels with sufficient grace..

Poor communication doesn’t disconnect souls. It’s the disconnected souls who poorly communicate..

[Bill Jensen] shared his extensive publishing background with me, and prayerfully offered to work out a proposal and to see if God opened any publish….

Pick up a yardstick to measure your life against anyone else's, and you've just picked up a stick and beaten up your own soul..

God is patiently transfiguring all the notes of my life into the song of His Son..