The more we walk the path first while becoming last and least in our organizations, the more we become like the Alpha and Omega whom we long to serve.

[Biblical counseling] Must insist that the image of God is central to developing a solid view of personality; that our sinfulness, not how we've been sinned against, is our biggest problem; that forgiveness, not wholeness, is our greatest need; that repentance, not insight, is the dynamic in all real change.

Bold love is courageously setting aside our personal agenda to move humbly into the world of others with their well-being in view, willing to risk further pain in our souls, in order to be an aroma of life to some and an aroma of death to others.

To dream alone is fantasy if it doesn't move the heart to act.

Most people want to grow, but the price of growth is pain.

Love cannot last without a foundation of forgiveness.

Every addiction is an attempt to slay hope.