If you believe that Jesus came to die then the gospels are very long introductions.

Spend your life meditating on the holy Trinity and all your questions will be answered.

Get the pastor out of church and into the community. “The more one is united to his neighbor the more he is united to God.” -St Dorotheos

“If you target the people nobody wants, God will give you the people everybody wants” -Tommy Barnett

People avoid risks in life so they can make it to death safely.

“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” – Henry Ford

This world is a great sculptor’s shop. We are the statues and there’s a rumor going around that some of us are someday going to come to life.

For a seed to achieve its greatest expression, it must come completely undone. The shell cracks, its insides come out and everything changes. To someone who doesn’t understand growth, it would like complete destruction.

Don’t go to a church that feeds you. Go to a church that makes you hungry. -Mike Patz

The scriptures are valuable not for what they prove, but for what they reveal.

“The weakness of so many modern Christians is that they feel too much at home in the world” AW Tozer

The Bible is the transcript of God’s heart.

When you grow up in poverty you never believe that it will be a benefit to your children.

Serve people indiscriminately.  Walk toward need.

Texting is taking away from us our unique ability to be able to speak (humans are the only God creature on earth who can talk).