Great opportunities may come once in a lifetime, but small opportunities surround us every day.
God wants your life — all of it. Ninety-five percent is not enough.
God has never made a person he didn’t love. Everybody matters to him.
Character is both developed and revealed by tests, and all of life is a test... You will be tested by major changes, delayed promises, impossible problems, unanswered prayers, undeserved criticism, an...
Benefits of Being in God’s Family The moment you were spiritually born into God’s family, you were given some astounding birthday gifts: the family name, the family likeness, family privileges, family...
A life devoted to things is a dead life, a stump; a God-shaped life is a flourishing tree. PROVERBS 11:28 (MSG)
By God and for God—and until you understand
You were born by his purpose and for his purpose.
Without a purpose, life is motion without meaning, activity without direction and events without reason. Without a purpose life is trivial, petty, and pointless.
We’re not completely happy here because we’re not supposed to be! Earth is not our final home; we were created for something much better.
Jesus specialized in menial tasks that everyone else tried to avoid: washing feet, helping children, fixing breakfast, and serving lepers. Nothing was beneath him, because he came to serve. It wasn’t...
If you have felt hopeless, hold on! Wonderful changes are going to happen in your life as you begin to live it on purpose.
Holocaust survivor Corrie Ten Boom said, If you look at the world, you’ll be distressed. If you look within, you’ll be depressed. But if you look at Christ, you’ll be at rest.
God does not play dice. ALBERT EINSTEIN
Every church could put out a sign No perfect people need apply. This is a place only for those who admit they are sinners, need grace, and want to grow.
A life devoted to things is a dead life, a stump; a God-shaped life is a flourishing tree. PROVERBS 11:28
Why you do what you do matters the most to God.
While it is wise to learn from experience, it is wiser to learn from the experiences of others.
When you think about a problem over and over in your mind, that’s called worry. When you think about God’s Word over and over in your mind, that’s meditation. If you know how to worry, you already kno...
When God wants to make a mushroom, he does it overnight, but when He wants to make a giant oak, He takes a hundred years. Great souls are grown through struggles and storms and seasons of suffering. B...