Give your problems to Christ before your problems get to you.

No one can teach your child like you can. No nanny, Bible school teacher, aunt, or uncle has your authority. What a phenomenal privilege is yours.

Christ became one of us to redeem all of us.

I think the hardest one had to do with suffering. It had to do with all of our church members and friends passing through difficult times. Sometimes it's the global climate: tsunamis, earthquakes, radiation. I think these kinds of questions are absolutely the most difficult, yet we need to be ready to respond to them because we have to be able as pastors to walk people through these valleys, these tough times in their lives.

Where we might think of sin as slip-ups or missteps, God views sin as a godless attitude that leads to godless action.

Let your failures refine you, not define you.

People of each generation in the twentieth century "were three times more likely to experience depression" than people of the preceding generation.