It's easy to fall into the trap of feeling like you've heard everything before and that you have nothing left to learn.

And perhaps, exhibiting the fruit of the Spirit may be our very best defense against a materialist view of mankind here on earth.

One of the things I found is that the things we want to say for well-intentioned motives often cause more harm than good. People don't need our words. They mainly need our presence, they need our love. And if you come in too quickly with explanations, you may do more harm than good.

Repentance, not proper behavior or even holiness, is the doorway to grace. And the opposite of sin is grace, not virtue.

Grace means there is nothing we can do to make God love us more . . . And grace means there is nothing we can do to make God love us less

God formed an alliance based on the world as it is, full of flaws, whereas prayer calls God to account for the world as it should be.

In no other arena is the church at greater risk of losing its calling than in the public square