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" I am struck by how quickly I am prone to judgmentalism. "

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" I don't have a problem with delegation. I love to delegate. I am either lazy enough, or busy enough, or trusting enough, or congenial enough, that the notion leaving tasks in someone else's lap doesn't just sound wise to me, it sounds attractive. "

" Women are the first witnesses to the resurrection and pillars of the early church. "

" As a preacher, my charge is to proclaim the message of the Scriptures. To help the people in my congregation become a people of the book. I love getting to do this. "

" Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends. "

" Love of learning led to monasteries, which became the cradle of academic guilds. "

" As much as we complain about it, though, there's part of us that is drawn to a hurried life. It makes us feel important. It keeps the adrenaline pumping. It means I don't have to look too closely at my heart or life. It keeps us from feeling our loneliness. "

" Jesus is why women have traveled continents, spent decades learning a strange language so they could translate the Gospel, planting churches, caring for the sick, educating the illiterate, and marching for the oppressed. "

" When someone is in crisis, don't start by teaching, leveraging, or explaining. Just be with. "

" In community, we discover who we really are and how much transformation we still require. This is why I am irrevocably committed to small groups. Through them, we can accomplish our God-entrusted work to transform human beings. "

" Tithing is a bad ceiling but an excellent floor. "

" I'm not sure ministry can ever have the urgency it requires if it is not aware of evil, both externally and internally. "

" Skill at helping people grow spiritually, like skill at playing chess, depends on understanding and valuing differences. "

" The human longings that are deep inside of us never go away. They exist across cultures; they exist throughout life. When people were first made, our deepest longing was to know and be known. And after the Fall, when we all got weird, it's still our deepest longing - but it's now also our deepest fear. "

" Better to be a loving person without knowing how you got there, than an expert no one can stand to be around. "

" Jesus viewed his own destiny - to be glorified in and through death - as an expression of a kind of cosmic principle: the pathway to life runs through death. "

" Sin is, somehow, at the root of all human misery. Sin is what keeps us from God and from life. It is in the face of every battered woman, the cry of every neglected child, the despair of every addict, the death of every victim of every war. "

" A simple way to address hidden curriculum issues is to spend time talking with staff and key leaders about their spiritual lives. "

" People cheer the Bible, buy the Bible, give the Bible, own the Bible - they just don't actually read the Bible. "

" The single dynamic that helps people be most aware of God and most experiencing the fruit of the Spirit is gratitude. "

" The day people around me stop questioning my character is the day my character begins to grow vulnerable. "

" Tithing is like training wheels when it comes to giving. It's intended to help you get started, but not recommended for the Tour de France. "

" Prudence is not hesitation, procrastination, or moderation. It is not driving in the middle of the road. It is not the way of ambivalence, indecision, or safety. "

Procrastination

" When the soul is understood and attended to, we can be liberated from hurry, preoccupation, unsatisfied desires, and chronic discontent. "

" For most of us, the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it. We will just skim our lives instead of actually living them. "

" My wife is one of the most extroverted people I know. She could out-talk Oprah and Joyce Meyer simultaneously. "

" We all want to feel spiritually vigorous, and we hurt when we don't. This pain is intensified for people who lead church ministries. "

" Ghettos and barrios and abusive homes and trauma wards may produce scarred souls; they can cripple more human spirits than they strengthen. "

" To have my mind racing and my heart beating fast over glorious possibilities is very close to the summit of life experience for me. "