God alone is perfectly and consistently just. We forget; God remembers. We see an action; God sees a motive. This qualifies Him as the best recordkeeper and judge.

Anxious. Intriguing word. It literally means, "to be divided" or "distracted." It conveys the idea of being so mentally ill at ease that you cannot do what you need to do because you are so distracted in your thinking.

Faith is like lighting the torch that passes from one person to the next. You can't light the torch of another if yours isn't burning.

When a church is spending more of its budget on media than shepherding, something is out of whack. We have gotten things twisted around.

Learning more truth is a poor and cheap substitute for stopping and putting into action the truth already learned

You want to mess up the minds of your children? Here's how - guaranteed! Rear them in a legalistic, tight context of external religion, where performance is more important than reality. Fake your faith. Sneak around and pretend your spirituality. Train your children to do the same. Embrace a long list of do's and don'ts publicly but hypocritically practice them privately... yet never own up to the fact that its hypocrisy. Act one way but live another. And you can count on it - emotional and spiritual damage will occur.

Encouragement is awesome. It (can) actually change the course of another person's day, week, or life.