The next time someone tells you, "The Church is full of a bunch of hypocrites." You can respond, "You don't even know the half of it."

Most everyone I know feels frazzled and overwhelmed most of the time.

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

Christianity is so much more than getting your doctrine right, but it is not less.

Sooner could a fish live upon a tree than the wicked in Paradise.

No matter how long we have been walking with Jesus, we need to hear again, do not love the world.

Scripture is profitable for training in righteousness. No one succeeds at the highest level in sports without working out. No one makes it in music without lots of practice. No one excels in scholarship without years of study. And no one makes it far in the school of holiness without hours and days and years in the word. You and I simply will not mature as quickly, minister as effectively, or live as gloriously without immersing ourselves in the Scriptures. We need the Bible if we are to be competent Christians.