God is never a God of discouragement. When you have a discouraging spirit or train of thought in your mind, you can be sure it is not from God. He sometimes brings pain to his children-conviction over sin, or repentance over fallenness, or challenges that scare us, or visions of his holiness that overwhelm us. But God never brings discouragement.

Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.

Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.

You have a "turn" every time you have an opportunity to choose. But most of us only see a tiny fraction of the choices we have.

Who you become while you're waiting is as important as what you're waiting for.

We are too often double espresso followers of a decaf Sovereign.

When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it's done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.