Stay strong! Your test will become your test-imony, your mess will become your mess-age.

Since our greatest need was forgiveness, God sent us a Savior. He became like us, so we could become like Him.

How can a person deal with anxiety? You might try what one fellow did. He worried so much that he decided to hire someone to do his worrying for him. He found a man who agreed to be his hired worrier for a salary of $200,000 per year. After the man accepted the job, his first question to his boss was, "Where are you going to get $200,000 per year?" To which the man responded, "That's your worry.

When you teach on a familiar text, you're capitalizing on common knowledge. When you teach on an unfamiliar text, you're having to build a bridge of understanding, and we need to do that as well.

God loves you just the way you are, but he refuses to leave you that way.

We preachers, people entrust us with their time week after week. I'm still stunned that people will let me talk to them for thirty minutes about anything I want to. It's a wonderful treasure that we are to steward.

You are valuable because you exist. Not because of what you do or what you have done - but simply because you are.