I’m 42 and still don’t know what I’m doing…

“Followers of Christ, when moved towards works of charity, perhaps should not wonder how they may to rescue the poor. A more helpful mindset to have is one that is open to the poor rescuing them…”

“I do what I do because I’m broken, too. My years of struggling against inequality, abusive power, poverty, oppression and injustice had finally revealed something to me about myself…”

“Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a covenant between equals.”

In a Kingdom founded on redemption, no one is the sum total of a past event.

Jesus looked upon a people incapable of saving themselves, and many times incapable of even requesting such, and deemed them rescued because that’s what Christ does… Christ rescues.

Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, “People do not seem to realize that their opinion of this world is also a confession of their character.”

“God give me a heart for them… You’ve got a heart for them… Can I have your heart for them?” - Pastor Mac.

“This sickness will not end in death. No, it is for God’s glory so that God’s Son may be glorified through it,” - Jesus

“The war creates no absolutely new situation: it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it.” - C.S. Lewis, Learning in Wartime

“Prison, it wasn’t part of my plan…” - Fredrick “P” Watson

“We tend to stay away from mourning and dancing. Too afraid to cry, too shy to dance… While we live in a world subject to the evil one, we belong to God. Let us mourn, and let us dance.” - Henri Nouwen, Suffering and Joy

“I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” - Jesus

“In New York, they preach about virtually everything, except . . . the Gospel of Jesus Christ.” - Dietrich Bonhoeffer