There are lesser paths that scour the landscape of my life, each begging me off to dead-end adventures touted as wondrous destinations of the most magnificent sort. And despite the vast number of them, I can distinguish each of them from the path designed by God by simply recognizing that God doesn’t promise destinations. He promises Himself.

The only ethics that will effectively guide mankind are those that mankind did not create.

Faith in God is believing that the size of the giant never dictates the size of the stone. It’s just being willing to use it.

The Bible says that “The fool says in his heart, ‘There is no God.’” But I would wonder if the greater fool is the one who (in his stubbornness) incessantly tells himself there is no God because there’s just enough God in him somewhere that’s incessantly telling him otherwise.

It is in embracing an unwavering adherence to Biblical principles that we will find a sustainable argument for the conviction that ‘sacrifice is the only sensible vocation.’ And it is the irresistible nature of that argument that can lift us above the incessantly gnawing desire to make ourselves the only vocation.

Sacrifice is the only sensible vocation.

I am a student of scripture, not an editor of it.

The act of striving itself is not sufficient to suggest that one is actually striving, for without an objective that is defined by the bigness of God and freed from the smallness of us we are only toddling about.

We have watched men and women expend the whole of their lives brilliantly form-fitting the Word of God to the ever-changing contour of the culture. Yet, true brilliance is found in recognizing that the ‘ever-changing’ contour of the culture is a result of the fact that we’ve refused to form-fit it to the ‘never-changing’ contour of scripture. And anything less than that is brilliance brilliantly faked.