We are healed to help others. We are blessed to be a blessing. We are saved to serve, not to sit around and wait for heaven.

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.

The greatest tragedy is not death, but life without purpose.

In Psalm 72, Solomon prays for power and fame but he says the purpose of influence is to speak up for others and one is the immigrant. He doesn't delineate between legal and illegal.

I think we live in a pluralistic society where we have to get along with each other and show common grace to each other.

We are not saved by good works; we are saved for good works. The Christian lifestyle is to be a lifestyle of goodness.

Every church needs to grow warmer through fellowship, deeper through discipleship, stronger through through worship, and larger through evangelism.