There are some needs only you can see. There are some hands only you can hold. There are some people only you can reach.

You can't live the Christian life without a band of Christian friends, without a family of believers in which you find a place.

Most churches make the mistake of selecting as leaders the confident, the competent, and the successful. But what you most need in a leader is someone who has been broken by the knowledge of his or her sin, and even greater knowledge of Jesus' costly grace

We need to remember that we are saved by grace when we fail. But we need to remember it much more when we succeed.

We tend to see God as a means through which we get things to make us happy. For most of us, He has not become our happiness.

The common moral framework: Do anything as long as it does no harm to others. Problem: Whose definition of harm?

God invites us to come as we are, not stay as we are.