Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.

When I repent, here is where it starts. I try to name my sin as honestly and as specifically as possible. Here is what repenting is not. It is not excusing my sin, minimizing my sin, it's not rationalizing my sin ... Repentance is getting painfully honest with God.

Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.

There are dozens of references to God in the Scriptures for every one to the figure of Satan. This reflects a sometimes forgotten theological truth that the devil is by no means God’s counterpart. He is a creature, not the Creator.

To become truly free, you must surrender.

Our beliefs are not just estimates of probabilities. They are also the instruments that guide our actions.

Disciplined people can do the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right reason.