Racists are not born, they are raised. Isolation is the breeding ground for racism. The more you come to know the world around you and people different than you the less likely you will become an extremist. The Church needs to bring the world together.

The journey to freedom is paved by the substance of our character.

If our children are going to walk away from Christ, we need to raise them in such a way that they understand that to walk away from Jesus is to walk away from a life of faith, risk and adventure and to choose a life that boring, mundane and ordinary

Sin creates the illusion of freedom. In the end it fools us into seeking freedom from God rather than finding freedom in God.

We have to ask ourselves, 'Am I really trying to discern God's will, or determine whether I want to do it?'

We were created to be expressions of the goodness and wholeness of God.

Jesus did not have a value for prayer for prayer's sake. He had a value for the intimate communion between God and man.