God speaks in the language you know best—not through your ears, but through your circumstances.

When you are in the dark, listen, and God will give you a very precious message for someone else once you are back in the light.

Once we lose sight of God, we begin to be reckless. We cast off certain restraints from activities we know are wrong. We set prayer aside as well and cease having God's vision in the little things of life. We simply begin to act on our own initiative. If we are eating only out of our own hand, and doing things solely on our own initiative without expecting God to come in, we are on a downward path.

When you are in the dark, listen, and God will give you a very precious message.

Our first step to make good decisions and not make wrong decisions is to live by the Word of God ... A man who lives by the Word of God will make the right choices and prosper in all his ways ... The Bible promises that if we trust God with our lives, He will meet all of our needs and direct all of our paths.

If I am going to see myself clearly, I need you to hold the mirror of God's Word in front of me.

The ultimate purpose of the Word of God is not theological information but heart and life transformation.

Faith is living in light of what God has said, resting in what he has done, and entrusting the future to his care.

Good biblical busyness is a powerful defense against debilitating doubt. The more you give yourself to the devotional, discipleship, and missional things God calls all his children to, the more you will be reminded of the enormous blessing and eternal importance of what it means to be a child of God and a part of God's unstoppable mission of redemption.

Faith means you take God at his word, you never let yourself think that you're smarter than him, and you live inside his boundaries.

You don't need to read a mystery novel; your life is a mystery to you.

When you don't know your Bible well, you will tend to use it as an isolated collection of wisdom statements for daily living, and you will tend to look for the verse that best seems to fit the situation you are discussing. This method completely misses the genius of the Bible's grand redemptive themes that form the basis of the hope and courage of the brand-new way of living to which God has called us.