Man goes into the noisy crowd to drown his own clamor of silence.
Woodrow Kroll is dead-on in his assessment of the church's lack of engagement with the Word.
You teach what you know, but you reproduce what you are.
If you leave the church service thinking about how good the pastor was, he has missed the mark. If you leave consumed with Christ, the pastor has been used by the Lord.
Experience is not the best teacher; evaluated experience is.
God is not looking for more stars; He's looking for more servants.
People tell me they want to make the Bible relevant. Nonsense. The Bible's already relevant. You're the one that's irrelevant!
Those people that don't see the power in art maybe have never been a part of an art, in a real way. To experience it, and to see and witness how it affects people, we're not doing it just to create professionals. It's to add another dimension to the way that children think and the way they experience certain things. If you didn't have dance, music and singing, it just seems so odd to me.
It was an unspoken pleasure, that having come together so many years, ruined so much and repaired a little, we had endured.
The world's problems make us think about who we are and where we stand, and how we measure up.
No commandment surpasses the one concerning the liberation of hostages, for they are among the starving, the thirsting, the stripped, always in danger of death.