Sometimes I wonder if we don't see Christ's love as much in the people he tolerated as in the pain he endured.

In our grandparents' generation news of an earthquake in Nepal would reach around the world some days later. In our parents' day the nightly news communicated the catastrophe. Now it's a matter of minutes. We've barely processed one crisis, and then we hear of another.

Conflict is inevitable but combat is optional.

God will use whatever he wants to display his glory. Heavens and stars. History and nations. People and problems.

God sees us with the eyes of a Father. He sees our defects, errors and blemishes. But He also sees our value.

What if you woke up this morning and had only the things you thanked God for yesterday?

We have a place where we can take people when they come to us with questions so we're not just speaking out of our own opinion. We're really speaking to them out of an authoritative place, not because of what we discovered, but because of what God says.