Without unreservedly surrendering myself to God, whatever place I might raise myself to remains nothing more than a step or possibly two off the hard basement floor of life, for of myself I can be...

Our fears are groomed for us and implanted within us by others who did the same for themselves…

We are about the hurried business of living life while missing it in the very process of living it.

I would surmise that we must cherish the resources that God has given us to achieve a goal more than we cherish the goal itself. For if we fall victim to the pursuit of the...

The service of self terminates at our own death.

Christmas was a response of the choice of mankind to take its existence into its own hands and chart its own course, liberally scripting its own ethics, crafting its own moral system, and choosing to...

God beckons me to exhilarating adventures that are without number, beyond all conceivable boundaries, and effortlessly eclipse the furthest reaches of my imagination, all while I sit languishing in stifling adventures of my own limited...

Far too often we’ve let humanity become a commodity that serves us along the way, rather than an asset that enriches our journey.

We can’t even remotely fathom that whatever is ending for us is always more than an ending.

Many of our efforts to intentionally craft and subsequently force our limited vision on life has more often than not resulted in some degree of cataclysm or schism or division or any number of other...

We forgot that many, if not most accomplishments will not leave the world a better place, which begs the question of whether they are really accomplishments at all.

Betrayal dressed in love and trimmed with the facade of good intentions is the most barbaric of all betrayals.

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...