Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.

Even in my own church I heard the words, 'Francis Chan' more than I heard the words, 'Holy Spirit.'

Churches we build only by our own efforts and not in the strength of the Spirit will quickly collapse when we don't push and prod people along.

We have a God who is a Creator, not a duplicator.

Frederick Buechner writes, “Intellectually we all know that we will die but we do not really know it in the sense that the knowledge becomes a part of us. We do not really know it in the sense of living as thought it were true. On the contrary, we tend to live as though our lives would go on forever.

I want to help people understand how to study the Scriptures with other people, to give them an overview of Scripture and assume that by understanding the Scriptures better, the Holy Spirit will bring to mind the right stories, the right teachings.