If I have the courage to acknowledge my limits and embrace them, I can experience enormous freedom. If I lack this courage, I will be imprisoned by them.

Never try to have more faith - just get to know God better. And because God is faithful, the better you know Him, the more you'll trust Him.

Over and over in the Bible, it is fear that threatens to keep people from trusting and obeying God.

The Holy Spirit will lead you to be with people as Jesus would be with them if He were in your place.

When I teach the formal curriculum, I have the chance to think about it ahead of time. I can rehearse it. I can illustrate it with self-deprecating humor and humble-sounding personal disclosure. I can try to make it comes out just right.

Acceptance is an act of the heart. To accept someone is to affirm to them that you think it's a very good thing they are alive.

At the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus death and resurrection.