Doing the easy thing makes you popular. Doing the hard thing makes you a leader.

While we worry about how fast we grow, God is concerned about how strong we grow.

I love the verse in Job, where it says a man deserves the devotion of his friends even when he forsakes the Almighty. Now what that verse means to me is, even if I were to say, right now I don't believe in God. I still need you to be my friend, and say, I can believe God for you right now. I'm going to hold you up while you are ranting and railing, and God can handle my ranting and railing because He certainly handled David's and Job's and so many others.

Get honest with God, and your focus will shift from just seeing your problems - no matter how overwhelming they seem - to the grace of God.

The purpose of influence is to "speak up for those who have no influence." (Pr.31:8) It's not about you.

We have to be even more Christocentric because of the influence of Islam today.

I think everyone does selective reading. Everybody has a filter, and that is real easy for critics to see things from their perspectives, and I'm going, I didn't mean that at all. And believers do the same.