"I'm asking God to bless you with something that unsettles you, disturbs you, and upsets you."

"Your prayer for someone may or may not change them, but it always changes YOU."

"Bad decisions can pile up to make a wall between you and what God wants you to do."

"If you catch yourself wondering why you want more of the world and you're not satisfied with God, it's because you have a spiritual problem."

"Sunday is God's day, and he was committed to honoring it. Just because he was in Paris to compete in the Olympics didn't justify changing his lifelong commitment."

"Paul's one thing was committing to forget about the past, to forge ahead into the future."

"Rather than continuing on the normal sexual path toward pain, emptiness, and idolatry, you can allow God to heal you, change the way you think, and place deliberate safeguards in your life to protect you."

"Training is an active, dynamic process lived out daily in all areas of life- not a rote exercise in memorizing verses and going to church every week."

"Wherever you are, be all there."

"God put you on earth with a divine assignment- something prepared in advance for you to do. I've found that the things that make us sad, the things that make us righteously angry, or the things we care about that others don't are often a key that unlocks our reason for living. It's our burden."

"In fact, if our kids are successful in every normal way, they can still miss God's main mark."

"If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack."

"When you believe marriage is your answer, you'll often give something that eventually hurts you both."

"Don't be afraid to be weird for being wise."

"God says happiness is contentment with what you already have, with what He provides you, with what you can share."

"One works hard to prop up an illusion that sucks the life out of them, and the other works hard to make their home a place that restores them, nurtures them, and gives life to others."

"Or maybe they just accept that it's wrong in God's eyes, although not in their own, and they'll worry about sorting it out later."

"I'm convinced normal people miss the majority of God's blessings because they're too busy to notice them."

"If we take a risk, we might not succeed, but if we avoid all risk, we guarantee we won't succeed, and we miss so much of what God wants us to learn."

"To get rid of a spiritual problem, we need to pull it up by its spiritual root. To pull up roots, we're going to have to be willing to get our hands dirty, to make some sacrifices that provides long-term benefits instead of short-term, refinanced gains. God is willing to help us, to provide the tools we need to weed out those areas where our desire for money is spoiling our fruit of the Spirit."

"Reality ground my expectations into microscopic particles."

"I can promise you this: If you really, sincerely, genuinely want God back, He hasn't moved. He's still there, just like always, ready to bear-hug you again, just like in the old days."

"Jesus never criticized prayers that were honest, only those that were long and showy."

"I've heard it said, "If the Devil can't make us really bad, then he'll try to make us really busy."

"Our minds are so cluttered with endless to-do lists that there's no room for us to experience the joy in being alive today."

"When something goes wrong, what's the best course of action? To change your direction. The word repentance means to stop going one direction (your own way) and turn toward the right direction (God's way). Your past may be a part of who you are, but it certainly doesn't have to define your future. Or if you feel stuck and unable to change directions and move toward God, think of this transformation another way. The Bible says that God is the Potter and we are his clay (Jer. 18:2-6)."

"Instead of drifting away from God, you'll be firmly anchored, able to swim against the tide, offering living water to all you meet."

"We don't need more time. We need to use the time we already have differently."

"You have enough time to do everything God wants you to do."

"If you want your ministry to have 'it', more important than anything else we've discussed, you must have 'it'. When it has filtered through your heart - the rare combination of passion, integrity, focus, faith, expectation, drive, hunger, and God's anointing - God tends to infuse your ministry with 'it'. He blesses your work. People are changed. Leaders grow. Resources flow. The ministry seems to take on a life of its own."

"The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people."

"So if it seems like you're doing something different from what everyone else is doing, and if sometimes that feels hard, this is a good thing, not a bad thing."

"Godliness with contentment is rare."

"She said, "Right now, while we have this time, I'm not going to do any of that other stuff. I'm going to seize this moment and simply enjoy being with Jesus while I can." Mary made a deliberate choice. She wasn't being lazy and using company as an excuse to get out of helping her sister with chores. She was choosing to focus on what mattered the most."

"We don't even know how to rest anymore."

"Where your money goes, there your heart follows."

"Not only did he unleash his emotions through rivers of tears, but for several days he denied his body food so he could pray and seek the God of heaven."

"Someone said that if you're lonely at the top, it's because you didn't take anyone with you."

"Better a little with God than a whole lot without Him. Better to have fewer houses, cars, appliances, clothes, toys, and bills than to have the whole world and lose your soul. Better something paid for that's used and enjoyed and shared and worn out than something nice and shiny and new that won't be paid for until 2019 and that you're too stressed to enjoy. Better a little with the fear of the Lord than more of what everyone else has. Better than normal, instead of normal is best."

"If you allow your enemy to steal your faith, he can destroy your life and ultimately kill your relationship with God."

"If you're a follower of Jesus, He has given you abundance so that you can care for others, not so you can stock up on capri pants for next summer or afford a leather interior in the new SUV. As long as you don't own the responsibility of being blessed with resources so that you can give to those around you, then you can stay focused on getting more for yourself."

"But God does give us responsibility, and it takes biblical faith to do those things in dependence on God."

"Pause for a moment and prayerfully consider your response: What breaks your heart?"

"He is the God who loved you so much that His Son stripped Himself of all heavenly glory to live as an impoverished Jewish carpenter so He could shed His blood, suffer, and die for the forgiveness of our sins."

"What one promise do you need to claim? Find it. Don't give up. Cling to it."

"Face your fears by remembering the power of God's cleaning truth. To change the way you are, change the way you think."

"To be fully alive, you need time with God to recharge."

"Rather than worrying about work, schedules, and deadlines, I felt at peace with God. He was in control. The world at large would not crumble because I turned off my iPhone. This is how it's supposed to be. For the first time in who knows how long, I felt like myself. Fully alive. Fully present. And fully aware of God's goodness."

"But don't ever forget: adultery is also biblical grounds for forgiveness, healing, and restoration."

"Will you have the courage to obey the voice of God?"