Low self-esteem causes me to believe that I have so little worth that my response does not matter. With repentance, however, I understand that being worth so much to God is why my response is so important. Repentance is remedial work to mend our minds and hearts, which get bent by sin.

Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus.

Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.

God is not interested in our spiritual life. He's interested in our life.

We who preach have one tool. We are people of the book.

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

You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody.