Your talent and giftedness as a leader have the potential to take you farther than your character can sustain you. That ought to scare you.

Knowledge alone makes Christians haughty. Application makes us holy.

...often, stepping outside your comfort zone is not careless irresponsibility, but a necessary act of obedience.

Christians are viewed as being "judgmental, homophobic, moralists" who think they are the only ones going to heaven and who "secretly relish the fact that everyone else is going to hell.

No matter how rich or poor you might feel, right now is the time to be generous.

Generosity helps us make a concerted effort to keep the needs of others in the forefront of our thinking. Rich people should not feel guilty, but we should feel responsible. We are called to be good stewards of the resources we have been privileged to manage.

If you feed an appetite, it grows. Satisfying an appetite does not diminish it. It expands it. To diminish an appetite, you have to starve it.