In today's society, looking good and feeling good often trumps doing good and being good. And some people don't know the difference anymore.

Success is more difficult to handle than failure.

At the universities I visit, the exclusivity of Christ is challenged in every open forum - "How can you possibly talk about one God or one way when there are so many good options?"

Ours is not a problem of the intellect but of spiritual poverty. That is why we need a Savior.

You cannot really have the world and hold on to it. It is all too temporary and the more you try to hold on to it, the more it actually holds you. By contrast, the more you hold on to the true and the good, the more you are free to really live.

One of the most staggering truths of the Scriptures is to understand that we do not earn our way to heaven. ...works have a place--but as a demonstration of having received God's forgiveness, not as a badge of merit of having earned it.

We need to learn how to handle critique and how to address an antagonist.