We are all both victims and victimizers. Just as everyone suffers, no one is innocent of causing suffering themselves.

Because Jesus was strong for us we are free to be weak.

God wants every local church to be the first place people think to go when they've really messed up...not the last.

People who haven't experienced major setbacks sometimes feel that their hurts are somehow less legitimate or real.

Christian growth doesn't happen by first behaving better, but by believing better--believi ng in bigger, deeper, brighter ways what Christ has already secured for sinners.

I was a surfer so I hung out with people who were surfers and made fun of people who weren't surfers and I listened to surf music and made fun of people who didn't listen to surfer music.

The Bible makes it clear that self-righteousness is the premier enemy of the Gospel.