Having authority implies accountability. If you reject the blame for failures under your watch, people reject your leadership.

You can like somebody without agreeing with all of their policies.

Wearing a mask wears you out. Faking it is fatiguing. The most exhausting activity is pretending to be what you know you aren't.

Let love be your greatest aim.

I'm not going to get into a debate over the non-essentials. I won't try to change other denominations. Why be divisive?

While we wait for God to work for us, God is waiting to work through us.

You are not an accident. Your birth was no mistake or mishap, and your life is no fluke of nature. Your parents may not have planned you, but God did. ... Long before you were conceived by your parents, you were conceived in the mind of God. He thought of you first. It is not fate, nor chance, nor luck, nor coincidence that you are breathing this very moment. You are alive because God wanted to create you!