Be careful about religion. It will make you feel you are close to God, you are pure, and you are serving him…when you’re not: ow.ly/2Vd930mveiX

Because a fish absorbs oxygen from water, not air, it's free only if it's restricted to water. If a fish is ‘freed’ from the river & put out on the grass to explore, its freedom to move & soon live is destroyed. Real freedom isn't restrictionless, it's finding the right ones.

If God is not the starting point, then our own perceived emotional needs become the drivers and sole focus of our prayer.

Friend, nothing comes to you that doesn’t pass through God’s providential fingers first. You have to know that. You have to trust that. That mind-set will situate you so that you can respond to life’s challenges and apparent randomness with intentionality and a persevering faith.

The gospel is always more compelling to people who know their own inadequacy.

UPDATE! FINALLY! After nearly a year of fighting for it, the #Iraq episode got remonetized! I know, it's a controversial country but as an educational video highlighting facts and statistics, there really isn't much of a reason to demonetize it. Watch it! youtube.com/watch?v=YHQqsx…

Death for Christians is the entrance into a greater endless love relationship, meaning reflection only makes it easier to face whats coming. That means the worse thing life can bring can only usher you into something infinitely better.

There’s a kind of doubt that actually wants answers, and there’s a kind of doubt that doesn’t want answers.

Faith is at least trust and everyone is trusting in someone or something to be "enough."

One of the signs that you may not grasp the unique, radical nature of the gospel is that you are certain that you do.

If you have to run away from something that used to be an idol, you're actually still enslaved by it. It's still controlling you.

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The only people who can take the law seriously are people who believe salvation is by promise. Without-you are either crushed or deluded.

Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.

If you love anything in this world more than God, you will crush that object under the weight of your expectations.