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.

Fellowship is a place of grace, where mistakes aren't rubbed in but rubbed out. Fellowship happens when mercy wins over justice.

Every small group has at least one 'difficult' person in it. If you don't immediately recognize who that person is -- it's probably you!

But dogs, which have no ability to sin nor moral conscience, do not have an ability to reject Jesus.

Faith is choosing and believing God's dream for your life. Nothing starts happening in your life until you start dreaming. God gave you the ability to dream, to create, to imagine.

What is your assurance of salvation? The promise of God's Word. If God says it, that settles it, because God cannot lie. You can trust the promise of God's Word.

Longing for the ideal while criticizing the real is evidence of immaturity. On the other hand, settling for the real without striving for the ideal is complacency. Maturity is living with the tension.