The world provides no cheerleaders on the pathway to godliness.

Worldliness is whatever makes sin look normal and righteousness look strange.

Blue Devils may have won today. Devil gonna lose tomorrow.

Flattery is saying something nice in order to help yourself. Encouragement is saying something true in order help someone else.

We may have the best of intentions in trying to discern God's will, but we should really stop putting ourselves through the misery of overspiritualizing every decision. Our misdirected piety makes following God more mysterious than it was meant to be

The best way to leave a legacy is to believe, teach, defend, and promote what is true.

On the last day, God will not acquit us because our good works were good enough, but he will look for evidence that our good confession was not phony. It’s in this sense that we must be holy.