It may be a very bad thing that I needed God to die for me, but it is a wonderful thing that God thinks I am worth dying for.

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

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.

Greatness is never achieved through indecision.

There is a world of difference between being friendly to someone because they're useful to you and being someone's friend.

True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.

Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.