Jesus gives us hope because He keeps us company, has a vision and knows the way we should go.

So immediately I'm trying to think: What are some of these times when we feel we're losing our hold on Christ, and what's the fear we're trying to address? I try to get into that quickly.

Refusing to forgive is like ingesting a lethal dose of poison and hoping it kills my enemy.

Faithful servants have a way of knowing answered prayer when they see it, and a way of not giving up when they don't.

Do you understand what God has done? He has deposited a Christ seed in you. As it grows you will change. It's not that sin has no more presence in your life, but rather that sin has no more power over your life.

A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.

I don't think God is a gender. He presents himself as a father but he comes to us with the tenderness of a mother. In some of the parables, he is the housewife who cleans the house looking for the lost coin. So I think we can miss the point if we get too concerned about the gender of God.