Benny Carter came up to me and said to me, "You know, in the whole history of the alto, I think Phil is the guy we should all be emulating. " The king! So look, I'm so blessed that my first hero took me in.
Have you read your Bible or has the Bible read you?
I have always deeply desired to be an honest man who said it when I struggled, stumbled and worried. I longed to be a man with real friends - friends who knew me at my worst and loved me.
Grace-driven effort wants to get to the bottom of behavior, not just manage behavior. If you're simply managing behavior but not removing the roots of that behavior, then the weeds simply sprout up in another place.
Preach the Gospel with your life.
More often than not, we want him to have fairy wings and spread fairy dust and shine like a precious little star, dispensing nothing but good times on everyone, like some kind of hybrid of Tinker Bell and Aladdin’s Genie. But the God of the Bible, this God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, is a pillar of fire and a column of smoke.
Men of God are those who walk in the fear of the Lord.
Sometimes a thing that's hard is hard because you're doing it wrong. (Point Omega)
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
Somebody give me a banana. I'm playing like a monkey, so I might as well eat like one.
I understand that people can start to say stop it, let me have a break and look at my emails without having an ad pop up.