The first act of love is always the giving of attention.

The more we pray, the more we think to pray, and as we see the results of prayer-the responses of our Father to our requests-our confidence in God's power spills over into other areas of our life.

There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.

Grace is not opposed to effort, it is opposed to earning. Earning is an attitude. Effort is an action. Grace, you know, does not just have to do with forgiveness of sins alone.

Why doesn't God just force us to do the things he knows to be right? It is because that would lose precisely that which he has intended in our creation: freely chosen character.

Every church needs to be able to answer two questions. First, what is our plan for making disciples? And second, does our plan work?

What we can accomplish as good as it may be does not compare to what God can accomplish