Don't' call it a failure, call it an education. Some of us are very educated.

Small churches become more effective when they specialize in what they do best.

If you aren't making any mistakes, you aren't innovating. If you're making the same mistakes, you aren't learning.

I have always been blessed with an enormous amount of energy. And so I didn't take care of my health at all.

I forgive. First, because I've been forgiven by God. Second, unforgiveness makes me miserable. And third, I'm going to need more forgiveness in the future. So we don't forgive for their benefit. We actually forgive for ours.

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.

God is more interested in your character than your comfort. God is more interested in making your life holy than He is in making your life happy.