Rejoicing and repentance must go together. Repentance without rejoicing will lead to despair. Rejoicing without repentance is shallow and will only provide passing inspiration instead of deep change.

Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.

Real love, the Bible says, instinctively desires permanence.

Prayer can be simple, but it's not easy. Nothing great is.

If you come to recognize the beliefs on which your doubts about Christianity are based, and if you seek as much proof for those beliefs as you seek from Christians for theirs - you will discover that your doubts are not as solid as they first appeared.

We should let Scripture interpret us more than we interpret Scripture.

When you say, "Come in Jesus as my caregiver, stay out as my Lord," he can't. He's both.