What you hope for determines what you live for. What you hope for determines WHO you live for. Hope misplaced can devastate you.

You'll face overwhelming odds; you'll be incredibly outnumbered. Fear would be your natural inclination. But keep in mind, God is with you.

The core of humanity's sin problem is not a horizontal behavior to be corrected but a Vertical relationship to be restored.

Competing loves are detected in the gap between saying and doing.

Only when we have done all we knew to do can we wait by faith for God to do what only He can do.

This fight is not going to be over in 10 minutes or 10 weeks; there's no quick solution. If you think it's taking too long, remember, God is with you.

Ed Welch says that all counseling is a variation on a single theme: knowing and praying for the counselee. Of all the questions the counselor might ask, then, the central guiding question in the counselor's mind is, "How can I pray for you?