If you and your church were to disappear off the face of the earth tomorrow, would anyone in the community around you notice you were gone? And if the community did even notice would they say 'we are really glad they are gone', or 'we are really going to miss them'?

Proper wedding vows are more a promise of mutually binding future love than a declaration of your present love.

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

The Gospel does not promise you better life circumstances; it promises you a better life.

Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.

Real love, the Bible says, instinctively desires permanence.

Without immersion in God's words, our prayers may not be merely limited and shallow but also untethered from reality.