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 must not settle for an informed mind without an engaged heart.

If you love anything in this world more than God, you will crush that object under the weight of your expectations.

If you have money, power, and status today, it is due to the century and place in which you were born, to your talents and capacities and health, none of which you earned. In short, all your resources are in the end the gift of God.

When pain and suffering come upon us, we finally see not only that we are not in control of our lives but that we never were.

The cross is the place where the Judge takes the Judgment.

Forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost.