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.

If you want to reach people nobody is reaching, you've got to do things nobody is doing

God could have programmed us as robots to do whatever he tells us, but then we'd never have the freedom to love and worship him.

If you want what NORMAL people have, do what normal people DO. If you want what FEW people have, do what few people DO.

The younger generation can smell fakes - Authenticity trumps cool.

God often guides by what He doesn't provide.

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