Faithfulness requires the courage to risk everything on Jesus, the willingness to keep growing, and the readiness to risk failure throughout our lives.

The gospel will persuade no one unless it has so convicted us that we are transformed by it.

God is loving us - you and me - this moment, just as we are and not as we should be.

Trust is that rare and priceless treasure that wins us the affection of our heavenly Father.

None of us has ever seen a motive. Therefore, we don't know we can't do anything more than suspect what inspires the action of another. For this good and valid reason, we're told not to judge. Tragedy is that our attention centers on what people are not, rather than on what they are and who they might become.

I could more easily contain Niagara Falls in a teacup than I can comprehend the wild, uncontainable love of God.

In essence, there is only one thing God asks of us - that we be men and women of prayer, people for whom God is everything and for whom God is enough. That is the root of peace. We have that peace when the gracious God is all we seek. When we start seeking something besides Him, we lose it.