People are always more encouraged when we share how God's grace helped us in weakness than when we brag about our strengths.

Then Jesus changed the situation. When he paid for our sins on the cross, the veil in the temple that symbolized our separation from God was split from top to bottom, indicating that direct access to God was once again available.

If you talked to others the way you talk to yourself, would you have any friends?

America was founded by religious people; devout people who came here because they wanted freedom of religion, It's what made America different from every other country.

What you BECOME on earth matters far more than what you DO. You're taking your character to heaven, not your career.

To me, thinking with the mind of Christ means to be thinking in light of eternity, which is what Colossians is all about; and that our lives are hid with Christ in God and that eternity, we're going to spend far more time on the other side of death than this side.

Surrender . . .sacrificing my life or suffering in order to change what needs to be changed