What is your assurance of salvation? The promise of God's Word. If God says it, that settles it, because God cannot lie. You can trust the promise of God's Word.

Anytime you feel jealous or envious, you reject your uniqueness. It's a criticism of God's plan for you.

It takes no courage to say or do what's popular.

Irrelevance happens when the speed of change outside an organization is greater than speed of change inside an organization.

If a pastor focuses only on teaching, he grows members with big ears and rears but tiny hands and hearts.Service is MODELED not taught.

We're not in control but we do have a greater hope and we do have a source of joy that isn't based on our circumstances.

There's two kinds of thinking. There is conjunctive thinking and there's disjunctive thinking. Disjunctive thinking says it has to be either/or. Now clearly, there are some either/or's - I either trust Christ or I don't. I'm either pregnant or I'm not. But a lot of thinking in Scripture, when it comes to theology is, in my opinion, conjunctive thinking. It's both/and. I believe that and I believe that.