At least one indication of unbelief is the tendency to measure life's challenges against our own adequacy instead of God's promises. To enter our Sabbath rest, we must put an end to self-reliance - trusting in our own abilities to overcome difficulties, rise above challenges, escape tragedies, or achieve personal greatness.

The beautiful thing about encouragement is that anybody can do it.

Alleged 'impossibilities' are opportunities for our capacities to be stretched.

Worry is characteristic of the heathen, not the Christian.

Christlikeness is a journey, not a destination. The joy is in the journey.

I am often the brunt of my own humor.

Jesus kept it simple. The lesson wasn't complicated. 'I speak; you believe My word; your son will be fine.' We complicate what God has made simple by seeing the world through human eyes. We want to see in order to believe and presume that our limitations are His.