God's plans for your life far exceed the circumstances of your day.Collection: God's Plan
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.Collection: Struggle
If only we knew what was happening when we pray, we would never cease to pray.Collection: Praying
God is always seeking you. Every sunset. Every clear blue sky. Each ocean wave. The starry hosts of night. He blankets each new day with the invitation, ‘I am here.’Collection: Ocean
Worry and worship cannot exist in the same space. One always displaces the other. Choose worship.Collection: Space
God calls each and every star by name. It’s not likely He has forgotten yours.Collection: Inspirational
When the enemy comes with shame and blame, tell him to go measure the distance from east to west and get back to you.Collection: Distance
You don't have to know everything about the mountain in front of you to take the next stepCollection: Mountain
The Father doesn't give life directions in one big bundle because the goal is knowing Him, not the plan.Collection: Father
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.Collection: Energy
God didn't say, 'Be still and feel that I am God,' He said, 'Be still and know'.Collection: Said
Sin doesn't make us bad, sin makes us dead. The gospel doesn't make us better, the gospel makes us alive.Collection: Alive
Accept the fact that you're never gonna be someone else and embrace the fact that the world needs you as God made you to be.Collection: Needs
Our scars are a witness to the world. They are apart of our story. Healed wounds that are symbols that God has restored us.Collection: Stories
You never shrink in stature by lifting someone else up.Collection: Shrinks
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.Collection: Jesus
Humility is not a character trait to develop, it's the natural by-product of being with Jesus.Collection: Christian
God's purposes and plans will not fail. Before you spend all your prayer time telling Him about yours, ask about His.Collection: Christian
Passion is the degree of difficulty we are willing to endure to accomplish the goal.Collection: Christian
Jesus has enough, is enough, and will be enough.Collection: Christian
Even if we don't see it, God is always working underneath the surface, behind the scenes and orchestrating His plans and purposes.Collection: Purpose
Don't overcomplicate God's will. Just stay connected to Jesus. Love Him. Look into His eyes. He will lead. Follow. Repeat.Collection: Jesus
Christ didn't die just so you could make to heaven; He lives so you can make it through earth!Collection: Heaven
Faithfully carry what God has put in your hands right now. This is God’s will.Collection: Hands
Every Christian became a missionary the moment God breathed his Spirit into him or her.Collection: Christian
If Jesus is here we are going to walk out of this place to live our lives to the glory of God the Father.Collection: Jesus
Everything thing we're doing is coming out of the living Word of God.Collection: Coming Out
The bound are going to go free because Jesus is in this Dome.Collection: Jesus
Whether it's an attorney or a bond trader or a journalist, or a musician or pastor, you want to do your best. You don't want to seek acclaim. You don't want to seek awards. You want to seek to do your best at what God's given you.Collection: Awards
When you strip all of this down it's just about a God in Heaven who loves you very much. And created in you a heart for Him...Your heart was fashioned by Jesus and for Jesus.Collection: Leadership
Mere nails, though pounded deep, were not enough to keep Jesus on the cross. But love was... and love prevailed.Collection: Jesus
It's time to blow out the candles on the pity party cake.Collection: Party
As long as I can remember, the compelling force behind my calling is a desire to know Jesus more and to make Him known. I believe I was created for a relationship with Jesus, so growing in my relationship with Him and worshiping Him with all my heart and life is preeminent.Collection: Jesus
Worship is simply about value. The simplest definition I can give is this: Worship is our response to what we value most. That’s why worship is that thing we all do. It’s what we’re all about on any given day……….the trail never lies. We may say we value this thing or that thing more than any other, but the volume of our actions speaks louder than our words.Collection: Lying
We may say we value this thing or that thing more than any other, but the volume of our actions speaks louder than our words.Collection: Our Words
You only have one life. And you only have one life of worship. You have one brief opportunity in time to declare your allegiance, to unleash your affection, to exhault something or someone above all else. So don't waste your worship on some little god, squandering your birthright on idols made only with human imagination. Guard your worship. And carefully evaluate all potential takers.Collection: Opportunity
Life only works when Jesus is everything and we are fully submitted to Him.Collection: Jesus
The stakes are too high for us to die with a small vision.Collection: Vision
The word advent means "expectation." What advent can do for us is create a sense of hope.Collection: Mean
If our worship isn't visible, comprehensive and extravagant, the gospel we heard must have been tiny, empty and cheap.Collection: Tiny
If you're waiting with God, waiting is okay. If you're always waiting on God, you'll be frustrated. God never seems to work at the speed that we want Him to.Collection: Waiting
Who knows who's waiting right now for one of us to invite them into God's family?Collection: Family
The two great moments in human history are the day that Christ was born and the day He was raised from the dead. These are represented by Christmas and Easter - the two biggest holidays for the church. People who don't even go to church do go on these days.Collection: Easter
If there's a perfect family out there, we're all happy for that family. But most families aren't perfect. Most families are living with some sort of challenge or some sort of difficulty.Collection: Perfect
At the heart of it all, Passion exists to see a generation stake their lives on what matters most. For us, that's the fame of the One who rescues and restores, and the privilege we have to fully leverage our lives by amplifying His name in everything we do.Collection: Passion
Your life may be messed and your foolishness may have put you into captivity but Jesus can do the whatever it is that is immeasurably more in your life.Collection: Jesus
Worship starts with seeing something great and then reflecting it to the world. Let's see God so we can reflect God.Collection: World
God’s words trump all opinions, including mine, and in the end, I believe God’s words lead to life.Collection: Believe
God is huge! He is ginormous! He is greater than every thought we have ever had of Him.Collection: Greater
Worship is our response, both personal and corporate, to God for who He is, and what He has done; expressed in and by the things we say and the way we live.Collection: Done