Every time you ask for forgiveness, you recognize that the biggest problems you face in life exist inside of you, not outside of you.

Sin is much more than doing the wrong thing. It begins withloving, worshiping, and serving the wrong thing.

Remember, it is not your weakness that will get in the way of God's working through you, but your delusions of strength. His strength is made perfect in our weakness! Point to His strength by being willing to admit your weakness.

God's design in our pain enables us to look back and say: He loves me enough to take me where I would have never wanted to go in order to produce in me what I never could have achieved on my own.

Sin makes us moral quadriplegics.

We forget that God's primary goal is not changing our situations or relationships so that we can be happy, but changing us through our situations and relationships so that we will be holy.

There is nothing that could be revealed about a pastor that has not already been covered by the blood of Jesus