We must be careful to avoid spiritual elitism. Everything we are and anything we possess as believers in Christ is a gift of grace. Pure hearts before God must be cleansed from any hint of spiritual pride.

Nothing will kill what you've been called to do more than comparing yourself to someone else.

Insecurity is miserable. That's the bottom line. We don't need it. We don't want it. And we really can live without it. So what would happen if we quite being accomplices in our own misery?

Trust reverses the detours of adversity into highways of destiny.

The Bible teaches that there are no lost causes. No permanent pit-dwellers except those who refuse to leave.

A person full of the Holy Spirit cannot be full of self. Pride never accompanies power in the fully yielded life.

We want Christ to hurry and calm the storm. He wants us to find him in the midst of it first.