A season of suffering is a small assignment when compared to the reward. Rather than begrudge your problem, explore it. Ponder it. And most of all, use it. Use it to the glory of God.

God will use whatever he wants to display his glory. Heavens and stars. History and nations. People and problems.

God's glory is the big news of the Bible, and my desire is that it would be all about me, but really it's all about God's glory.

God leads us. God will do the right thing at the right time. And what a difference that makes.

Grace is God as heart surgeon, cracking open your chest, removing your heart - poisoned as it is with pride and pain - and replacing it with his own.

For years I thought my assignment or the Church's assignment was to articulate the Gospel and nothing more. Now I believe that if we don't support the verbal expression of the Gospel with physical demonstration of compassion, we are not imitating Jesus.