Your spiritual family is even more important than your physical family because it will last forever. Our families on earth are wonderful gifts from God, but they are temporary and fragile, often broken by divorce, distance, growing old, and inevitably, death.

Our hope is a certainty based on the truths that God is in complete control of our universe and that He loves us.

Three enemies that will weaken your ministry over time: Self-indulgence, bitterness, and carelessness. Strong people discipline their desires, restrain their reactions, and keep their commitments.

It's easy to demonize from a distance.

Never let an impossible situation intimidate you. Let it motivate you - to pray more, trust more, expect more.

Heartless praise is not praise at all. It is worthless and an insult to God.

Remember that your character is the sum total of your habits.