As we work together as a team, God grows our dreams into something greater than we can accomplish alone.
When God gives you a passion for a particular cause, there is a reason for it, and that reason is not to keep it to yourself. You are called to be a representative for those in need.
Why is it that we feel bad when “all” we can do for a person is pray for them? We feel like we need to work to help, but remember: prayer is the work.
When others doubt the power of Jesus, be the one who asks Him to perform the impossible. He often will.
Since God exists outside of time, He also has all of the time He needs to personally act in each of our lives. There is never a rush to the next meeting or the next message.
Trust is tough. Once trust has been broken by multiple people on multiple occasions, believing in anyone or anything becomes increasingly difficult. Much of the skepticism of our world can be traced back to broken trust.
We want to care most about what Jesus cares most about.
Jesus cares more about our effort than our accomplishments.
Be willing to be unliked and ridiculed in order to speak the words of the One who matters most.
In our modern world, we often separate faith from practice. But the way of Jesus rejects this notion. Only living our faith offers the credibility to teach our faith. Anything less is less that the teachings of Christ.
Jesus rejoices in even the smallest gifts to His children.
Jesus came to give us life. We don’t have to hang on a cross like he did. For him, it was a sacrifice. For us, it is a gift.
The first miracle Jesus performed was instant winemaking. No wonder people loved Him! He probably received a bunch of wedding invitations after that one.
When your goal is not fame or notoriety, you can simply show up, offer compassion to people, and let God do His work.
It is when we experience God most closely that our hearts burn most passionately to show his compassion to others.
The true test of faith is how we treat those who can do nothing for us in return.
True compassion sees each person as a brother or sister and acts accordingly.
God does give times of peace in our Christian lives, but it is not all of the time.
We may not understand why certain things occur in our lives, but we understand who to run to when they do.
May we show great concern to those of great concern to God.
The poor are not a problem but rather an opportunity to show unconditional love.
Many go to great lengths to discover God’s will or to hear His voice, yet we only need to open His Book.
The Bible’s message is that you matter to God. Our response is that God should matter to us.
The response to stress is not less time in God’s Word, but more.
To delight in the law of the Lord is to find our source of joy outside of ourselves.
Your attitude toward Scripture can reveal your attitude toward the Savior. When your passion for God’s Word runs high, your passion for God does as well.
Even in our own lives, we often struggle with a God who is real, who created us, who cares for us, and desires to know us. Yet from the start, God has made clear that you and I are made in his image, on purpose and for a purpose.
Don’t settle for helping those who will help you in return or doing a good deed for others to see. Help others without expecting anything back. Even if nobody else cares, God will notice.
The applause of the audience is short-lived. When calls resound for an encore, we are called to direct our attention to our Master.
Those who wish to stand tallest must kneel lowest.
In humility, we find our true calling and our greatest honor.
Much of life appears mundane at the time. Yet in God’s providence every moment includes significant details arranged by His divine hand.
Church may be primarily for believers, but the gospel is for all people.
What if every church in America had a ministry to stand against modern slavery?
Church wasn’t designed by an architect (Technically, Jesus was a carpenter.). So why do we think of churches as buildings instead of groups of people who love Jesus?
The solution to our human frailty is not to try harder, but to turn Godward.
If your heart is still beating, God is not done with you yet.
God may allow a disturbance, but we don’t have to be disturbed by it.
To follow Christ requires a downward career track that does not depend on dollars or status. Instead, what matters is Christ.
Christ has not called us to be popular, but to be faithful. We are not saved to be relevant to the crowds; we are saved to reflect Christ.
Our problems may tower over us, but God towers over our problems.
It is not the size of our problems but the size of our God that matters most.
Did you ever stop to consider that God made us to remake us? He created us so we would seek Him and be transformed by Him.
God saves us because He loves us. It has nothing to do with our goodness or nobility, our achievements or agility. Our salvation depends completely upon our Savior.
Our greatest need is not for a better income or a more appealing body, but for salvation.
When we first come to faith in Christ, we often think it was simply of our own choosing. Only later do we realize we would have never taken that step of faith apart from His grace drawing us near to Him.
How you live today has the potential to impact all eternity.
No worldly pursuit compares to the joy of experiencing the change of one soul from death to life.
Whether we live in poverty or prosperity, we can still live generously.
The emphasis in Scripture is not the amount we give, but the attitude with which we give.
If we are to be blessed, we must pursue the Giver of blessings.
There is no secret formula–only a life committed to a close walk with God.
God is calling you to change the world one life at a time and one small step at a time. Begin today where you are.
Live today the way you want to be remembered tomorrow.
Everyone leaves a legacy, whether they want to or not. The question is, “What kind of legacy will you leave?
Safety comes in our nearness to God, not in our distance from our enemies.
We cannot do everything, but we can all do something.