We are created for community, fashioned for fellowship, and formed for a family, and none of us can fulfill God's purposes by ourselves.

The love of Jesus Christ covers your sins, and it also gives you the power to let other people off the hook. You've been forgiven, and you can forgive others.

When you jump across a canyon, cautious small steps and vacillation won't work. Sometimes you just have to go for it.

Let love be your greatest aim.

Patience puts up with those you'd like to put down

Everybody's got a worldview. Everybody's betting their life on something. ... You just better know why you're betting what you're betting on.

My first reaction in pastoral care is not to explain. And again, I don't think the primary purpose of the Bible is to explain suffering. I never have, because the actual explanations are often inadequate. I think the primary purpose of Scripture is to say I am all you need in this suffering and I need comfort.