Be confidently assured that any ‘gods’ that we build will always have veracious appetites, and sooner or later they will gorge themselves on that which built them.

I can ruthlessly press my imagination out beyond its very edges, and even in such a remote place I have not begun to touch the barest periphery of God’s imagination.

Life is bigger than any of us will ever be as an individual. Purpose tells us that we’re specifically designed to engage every bit of that.

The image of God infused in us never sees the light of day in the service of self, but it becomes the light of day in the service of others.

Responding to the ‘great good’ within us causes us to be ‘great people.

Risk is the stuff that sucks the predictability right out of the very things that we desperately wish were predictable.

Calm for too long begs the question of whether we’re in an all-out pursuit of life, or we’re all-out of the pursuit of life.

Dream extravagantly, for God has imbued us with ample imagination to dream out to and across the very periphery of the impossible.

The issue is becoming so absorbed in positioning ourselves ahead of everyone else that life becomes nothing more than an endless strategy.

To be an end in myself is to bring an end to myself.

Good tells us that our agenda is the agenda of the person next to us.

Christmas is God being relentless to the point that He would die in that relentlessness.

Worlds of my own creation are erected with walls that are within but a few scant paces of each other. The world that God creates for me has no idea what walls are.

If I am to lead with impact, I will spend far less time out front pointing to the destination, and I will spend far more time walking among the ranks and giving them hope for...

Whatever might be taken from me need not leave me with a deficit in its wake.

If God created great things with a point of vulnerability, it would lie in the reality that great things die in the hands of great ignorance.

The most elusive and ultimately impossible act of liberation is freedom from sin and self, and no document or declaration of man regardless of how exquisitely penned can do that. Such an astonishing act of...

Eternity is the end of the end.

Any purpose will be entirely purposeless unless it completely exceeds my ability to achieve it for only then is there room for God, and without God purpose of even the most magnificent sort remains utterly...

To dress up today in the threadbare garments of yesterday is to create an impoverished tomorrow.

To take this one shot at life and live it with God is to take this one shot and have it reverberate across and around my world as if it were a million shots and...

I cannot calculate nor attempt to manage sacrifice, for to do so is to attempt to sacrifice comfortably. And it is in the attempt to sacrifice comfortably that I begin to realize that the desire...

Integrity is the antithesis of compromise and the sworn enemy of comfort. It bases its decisions not on how much discomfort we might be able to avoid, but on how much we need to avoid...

Risk is uncertainty injected into our most vulnerable places. And because that’s the case, we may choose not to risk.

Denial is fear gone delusional. Acceptance is fear given to God. Engaging is fear overruled by God. Victory is fear banished by God.

If left to my own simplistic devices and the sorely scant limits of my abilities, would I not die a death of the blandest sort imaginable? And should I not thank God that He graciously...

If I wholly unleash my imagination and forcefully stretch it out beyond its own edges, even at such a point I can only imagine a thin shard of this most immense God. And even though...

I think myself so terribly ‘clever’ that the need for God is blatantly irrelevant. And all the while, in the rapidly growing mess that I’m ‘cleverly’ creating, I rather quickly begin to realize that the...

There’s something tightly woven throughout the fabric of our humanity that runs entirely opposite to the baser instinct of looking out for our own good.

Christmas is not something that sprang from the musings of some person who creatively devised caricatures of elves, spiraling candy canes, visions of a magical city whose foundation was nestled in the far reaches of...

Despite our battered exterior and in spite of the festering scars and rank filth that overlays it, there is underneath it all the pristine likeness of God Himself. And we would be wise to cast...

Contrary to popular opinion, we are all a vast brotherhood of human beings whose very survival hinges not on what we keep, but on what we give. And it is in the giving that we...

We may find great relief and inexplicable solace in purposefully looking beyond grief in order to determine the provision made within it.

Sometimes the grandest of all events are described in the poverty of a few simple words.

God would have us cherish even the smallest of blessings, for in taking a blessing for granted we are well on our way to taking it to its grave.

I too often allow people to become a sterile commodity to be bartered in the service of my greed, and in doing something so absurdly reckless I foolishly barter away everything that meets my need.

Denial is a seductive ruse of our own making, force-fitting our agendas by forcing out truth all because we bent to fear rather than bowed to God.

Purpose declares that the trajectory of my existence and the course of human history were intentionally set to collide at this precise moment in time because what I have to offer human history is desperately...

To assist us in climbing the mountains is marvelous. To level the mountains and altogether eliminate the climb is miraculous. And at times I think that God prefers the latter because it emboldens us to...

In too many instances we have settled for a world of our own shaping that is shaping up to be in terrible shape.

If I give with the motive to get, regardless of the degree to which that motive besets me, I will walk away impoverished and I will leave those to whom I have given just as...

Christmas is everything that God would do, and nothing that we would imagine Him doing.

Sometimes things that appear completely irreconcilable and mutually exclusive serve a shared purpose that could not be achieved except through their contradiction.

Goliath’s” standing without Him.

If I am always standing at the bottom of the mountain longingly looking up, in all probability it is because I have heeded the pillaging dogma of mediocrity which persistently tells me that the dream...

To strategize a rescue mission irrefutably capable of saving every human being is leagues beyond our ability to comprehend, and enormous beyond any resource we possess to execute. And to embark upon just such a...

To be ‘one’ in one’s own hands is to be ‘one.’ To be ‘one’ in the hands of God is to be ‘one’ that is far too vast to be counted.

May we know fear, but may we always refuse to court cowardice.

It was the greatest, most intricate, most ingenious and most costly rescue mission in all of human history.

There is a deep dryness of the soul and all of the recalcitrant contrivances of man to quench his own thirst will bring not a single drop of moisture to those parched places, for God...