The clearer your vision becomes, the easier it is to guard what God calls you to do.

If we want to be better than normal we must move from good intentions to what I call God intentions.

Our greatest priority as Christian parents is to gradually transfer our children's dependence away from us until it rests solely on God.

Shame usually follows a pattern—a cycle of self-recrimination and lies that claims life after life. First, we experience an intensely painful event. Second, we believe the lie that our pain and failure is who we are—not just something we’ve done, or had done to us—and we experience shame. And finally, our feelings of shame trap us into thinking that we can never recover—that, in fact, we don’t even deserve to.

Twenty-nine years ago, I came to faith in Christ after a gentleman from the Gideon's International gave me a free copy of the New Testament Bible. I started in Matthew and read all the way to Ephesians 2 when it finally clicked for me. After reading about salvation by grace through faith, I cried out to Jesus for his forgiveness and surrendered my whole life to Him. At that moment, I became a new person.

If you are not dead, you are not done.

You can have control. You can have growth. But, you can't have both.