Humility is honestly assessing ourselves in light of God’s holiness and our sinfulness.

The biblical purpose of every conversation you have, in every personal interaction, is that they person who hears you will receive grace.

No matter the severity of suffering we experience in this life, it will always be less that what we have deserved for our sins

It was humanly impossible for the disciples to free themselves from their selfish pursuit of self-exaltation, just as it's impossible for us to free ourselves from the very same sins.

Before we can begin to see the cross as something done FOR us, leading us to faith and worship, we have to see it as something done BY us, leading us to repentance. Only the man or woman who is prepared to own his share in the guilt of the cross may claim his share in its grace.

Encourage others each and every day-nothing's more important than our words.

Individuals motivated by self-interest, self-indulgence, and a false sense of self-sufficiency pursue selfish ambition for the purpose of self-glorification.