As many have learned and later taught, you don't realize Jesus is all you need until Jesus is all you have.

No writer or thinker has taught me as much as James Hunter has about this all-important and complex subject of how culture is changed.

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

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

Covenant community is like air. We don't miss it until we need it.

Nothing is more important than to learn how to maintain a life of purpose in the midst of painful adversity.

Mercy and forgiveness must be free and unmerited to the wrongdoer. If the wrongdoer has to do something to merit it, then it isn’t mercy, but forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness.