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

There is no vacation, no experience, no dream home, and no thing outside of God that can bring rest in the essence of who you are. Your soul will be restless until it finds rest in Him.

When you delegate tasks, you create followers. When you delegate authority, you create leaders.

We don't have eternal life because we're good, we have it because God is good.

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.

The more I looked, the more I found Christian Atheists everywhere.

With prayer, you may be able to start one discipline or habit that will overflow into many more positive, God-honoring traits.