Baptism is the initial step of a faithful heart.

Apple trees bear apples, wheat stalks produce wheat, and forgiven people forgive people.

Let your failures refine you, not define you.

The strength of a story is that it stays with people and it gives an opportunity for that story to connect with people where the Holy Spirit intends for it to do so.

I think you have to be very careful about any story that puffs you up.

Seek first the kingdom of wealth and you'll worry over every dollar. Seek first the kingdom of health and you'll sweat every blemish and bump. Seek first the kingdom of popularity, and you'll relive every conflict. Seek first the kingdom of safety, and you'll jump at every crack of the twig. But seek first His kingdom and you will find it. On that, we can depend and never worry.

Sin is not an unfortunate slip or a regrettable act; it is a posture of defiance against a holy God.