Secularism and Religion are both all about your personal performance. The Gospel is the performance of another applied to you.

God’s grace does not come to people who morally outperform others, but to those who admit their failure to perform and who acknowledge their need for a Savior.

It seems almost oxymoronic to believe that this new idealism has led to a new pessimism about marriage, but that is exactly what has happened. In generations past there was far less talk about "compatibility" and finding the ideal soul mate. Today we are looking for someone who accepts us as we are and fulfills our desires, and this creates an unrealistic set of expectations that frustrates both the searchers and the searched for.

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

The more you rejoice in your own forgiveness, the quicker you will be to forgive others.

If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all he said.

God loves you just because He loves you.