Occupation: Author Birth: August 28, 1958
If God imagined you at birth, what makes you think He's stopped imagining you now..
Home is ultimately not about a place to live but about the people with whom you are most fully alive. Home is about love, relationship, community, an….
It is amazing how much we can endure when we are convinced there is a purpose to our struggle..
I have so much confidence in the reality of Jesus that I feel no pressure to try to make people act or be a certain way. I'm banking everything on th….
It is amazing where God will take you when you are willing to follow. Life is full of surprises when we choose mystery over security..
God allows and at times causes us to go through the kinds of circumstances that strip away all falsehood and leave us with our real selves. God's ult….
Your dreams are the product of your longings, a portrait of your potential, and a promise of your future..
The person who loves the process has a much greater chance of success than the person who loves the outcome..
The limitations you are willing to accept establish the boundaries of your existence..
You cannot wash the feet of a dirty world if you refuse to touch it.
When the church becomes an institution, people are nothing more than volunteers to be recruited. When the church is a movement, our stewardship becom….
Gratitude changes your perspective about life. You see the future, experience the present, and remember the past in a dramatically different way..
Would you be willing to give your life to save the world if no one ever knew your name? If anonymity was the price you would have to pay for signific….
If our children are going to walk away from Christ, we need to raise them in such a way that they understand that to walk away from Jesus is to walk ….
God gives God-sized dreams to people with God-shaped hearts..
We are all hypocrites in transition. I am not who I want to be, but I am on the journey there, and thankfully I am not whom I used to be..
The church does not exist for us. We are the church, and we exist for the world..
When you live your life knowing the mission and calling and voice of God in your soul and you know where that compass is driving you forward, you wil….
I think a lot of us are not on a path; we're in a rut. We have confused comfort with peace, belief with faith, safety with wisdom, wealth with blessi….
God clarifies in the midst of obedience, not beforehand..
Love, no matter how you come at it, is a huge risk. It makes it easier for me to remember that God will never reject me because I am not good enough ….