Worship is our response to what we value most. As a result, worship fuels our actions, becoming the driving force of all we do.

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It’s easy: You simply follow the trail of your time, your affection, your energy, your money, and your allegiance. At the end of that trail you’ll find a throne; and whatever, or whoever, is on that throne is what’s of highest value to you. On that throne is what you worship.

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There's no doubt we were unworthy, but we were never worthless. Big difference.

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If only we knew what was happening when we pray, we would never cease to pray.

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Life isn't perfect and that's the kind of world where Jesus showed up. He wasn't born in a palace on a perfect day. He was born in the middle of the night during tax season to an unwed couple in a stable or a cave in a sheep field. That was God's way of showing us that nothing is perfect. Life is chaotic. It's messy. That's what Jesus was stepping into.

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It’s at the heart of everything we struggle with in life: longing to be valuable, to be accepted, to be prized, to be worth something to somebody, to have a life that matters, and God’s saying ‘You matter! I didn’t make anyone else like you. You’re not a reprint or a lithograph. You’re a one-of-a-kind, original creation of God.

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We go from Malachi to Matthew in one page of our scriptures, but that one piece of paper that separates the Old Testament from the New Testament represents 400 years of history - 400 years where there wasn't a prophet, 400 years where God's voice wasn't heard. And that silence was broken with the cry of a baby on Christmas night.

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Passion is the degree of difficulty we are willing to endure to accomplish the goal.

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Our scars are a witness to the world. They are apart of our story. Healed wounds that are symbols that God has restored us.

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Every Christian became a missionary the moment God breathed his Spirit into him or her.

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