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

Sincerity is a Christian virtue, as is honesty about our struggles. But my generation needs to realize that Christianity is more than chic fragility, endless self-revelation, and the coolness that comes with authenticity.

If we aren’t prepared to be counter-cultural we aren’t ready to be Christians.

Anxiety is simply living out the future before it gets here.

Your love should be so far reaching, earnest, biblical, Christ-centered, pure, and self-sacrificing that the world may hate you for it.

No one in the history of the world has been more inclusive of repentant sinners than Jesus and no one has been more intolerant of sin.

Don't try so hard to be hip. When the Church finds out what is cool, it is not cool anymore.