Christ's resurrection not only gives you hope for the future; it gives you hope to handle your scars right now.

When Jesus looked down from the cross, he didn't think “I am giving myself to you because you are so attractive to me.” No, he was in agony, and he looked down at us - denying him, abandoning him, and betraying him - and in the greatest act of love in history, he STAYED. He said, “Father, forgive them, they don't know what they are doing.” He loved us, not because we were lovely to him, but to make us lovely.

Humility is so shy. If you begin talking about it, it leaves.

Living is giving....If you spend your money on yourself, you are just surviving. But if you want your life to count, if you want to really live - give.

Legalism is looking to something besides Jesus Christ in order to be acceptable and clean before God.

If you seek to serve people more than to gain power, you will not only serve people, you will gain influence.

Every treasure on this earth says, 'Give your life to purchase me.' Jesus says 'I'm the one treasure who died to purchase you.'