True purity, however, is a direction, a persistent, determined pursuit of righteousness. This direction starts in the heart, and we express it in a lifestyle that flees opportunities for compromise.

You get up and you preach a sermon and people walk away thinking what a great guy - and that's a failure as a pastor. Our job is to proclaim Christ.

Terms don't define our lives; our lives define our terms.

Purity doesn't happen by accident; it requires obedience to God.

When we define our happiness by some point in the future, it will never arrive. We'll keep waiting until tomorrow. If we allow impatience to govern us, we will miss the gift of the moment. We'll arrive at that point in time we expected to provide fulfillment and find it lacking.

God gave people 2 ears and 1 mouth because He wants us to listen twice as much as we talk.

The right thing at the wrong tme is the wrong thing.