Tolerance is not the absence of belief. Tolerance is how your beliefs teach you to treat other people

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

Big cities have a lot of 'younger brothers' who have left traditional parts of the world and their families for a more liberal lifestyle. But cities are filled to the gills with 'elder brothers' too.

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.

Only if you first seek inner forgiveness will your confrontation be temperate, wise, and gracious. Only when you have lost the need to see the other person hurt will you have any chance of actually bringing about change, reconciliation, and healing. You have to submit to the costly suffering and death of forgiveness if there is going to be any resurrection.

How do you change your behavior? Change what you worship

Accepted in Christ, we now run the race 'for the joy that is set before us' rather than 'for fear that comes behind us'.