Entering the waters of baptism is something we do. The be that must precede it is faith in Jesus Christ and a mighty change of heart.

...the truer measure of sacrifice isn't so much what one gives to sacrifice as what one sacrifices to give. Faith isn't tested so much when the cupboard is full as when it is bare. In these defining moments, the crisis doesn't create one's characterit reveals it.

Anger is an uncivil attempt to make another feel guilty or a cruel way of trying to correct them.

Trying to please others before pleasing God is inverting the first and second great commandments.

I can take my wife out for a lovely evening this Friday, which is a to do. But being a good husband is not an event; it needs to be part of my nature—my character, or who I am.

Entering the waters of baptism is something we do. The be that must precede it is faith in Jesus Christ and a mighty change of heart.

Courage is the form of every virtue at the testing point.