“The Holy Spirit is not a computer to be programmed. He is a person to be welcomed.” -Max Lucado

Your passion is the spoon that stirs the reservoir of your gift. - Keith Craft

The Devil does not have 2 destroy pastors; he simply has to distract them. The enemy is always launching weapons of mass distraction on church leaders. A distracted leader will experience a diluted focus, diminished influence, & eventually a decimated ministry. - Daniel Henderson

A century ago, the only way to compare your pastor with another pastor was to go on vacation. Today, it seems that every pastor in America is compared against a composite of the “best of the best.” - Daniel Henderson

Comparison is an ugly game that no one ever wins. - Daniel Henderson

Hudson Taylor’s of our great history. Taylor suffered and agonized for years in China and yet said, “I never made a sacrifice.”

I am — and will never, this side of the resurrection, be more than — a creature of dust. I will rest content in my creaturely weakness. —Christopher Ash

“The first great and primary business to which I ought to attend every day is to have my soul happy in the Lord.” - George Müller

God’s love in John 3:16 is not amazing because the world is so big, but because the world is so bad. —D.A. Carson

“This grief, this sorrow, this loss that empties my hands and breaks my heart, I may, if I will, accept, and by accepting it, I find in my hands something to offer. And so I give it back to Him, who in mysterious exchange gives Himself to me.” —Amy Carmichael

“Not only can you trust God to write your story; you can also be sure that, in the end, He will right your story!” - Robert and Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth

“Situations that seem confusing and chaotic to us are actually plot threads He is weaving together to create a story…a beautiful, compelling work of art.” - Robert and Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth

“Getting a right perspective is critical—lifting our eyes upward to God rather than outward to our circumstances or inward to ourselves. Counseling our hearts according to truth. Realigning our thoughts and emotions according to His Story.” - Robert and Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth

Christian faith is not a negotiation but a surrender…[And] our greatest motive for surrendering to him cannot be for what he will do in us. It must be to love him for what he did for us. —Tim Keller

Since I know Jesus bled for little sins, I cannot wound his heart by indulging in them. —C.H. Spurgeon

The next time you are approaching a conversation you anticipate being difficult, take time to pray for the person with whom you disagree. Get your heart into a place where you genuinely wish them well. Pray earnest blessings on them. —Gavin Ortlund

“All Scripture points to Christ by seeing him unveiled in the Bible’s story... discovering how in God’s eternal plan, all of God’s promises were intended by God to anticipate, foreshadow, and typify the eternal Son to come.” —Stephen J. Wellum

“Football is what I do, but Christ is who I follow.” -Fernando Mendoza, national championship quarterback of the Indiana Hoosiers

When we are consumed with God’s glory, we forget to worry about our own. — Hannah Anderson

Disrupting a church’s worship service to make a political point is disgraceful. Targeting a Southern Baptist church in Minneapolis crosses a clear line, and I stand fully with the church and its members who simply came to worship Jesus in peace. Southern Baptists, let’s pray for