1 Timothy 3 lists only one gift, teaching, then follows w a list of character traits.

Being born again happens in an instant. Learning to live as a child of God takes a lifetime.

You are a trophy of God's grace. He has future accomplishments with your name written on them.

Substance and content over style and hype any day.

Local churches are ten times more segregated than the neighborhoods they are in and they are twenty times more segregated than the schools than the nearby schools.

Jesus' epic work through his sinless life, atoning death, resurrection, and ascension, and the sending of the Spirit, was so that God could have an ethnically diverse family of Jews and Gentiles.

Only 13.7% of churches in America are consider multiethnic. This means that 86.3 % of churches are homogenous.

God will crush the pride out of us one way or another. He loves us, and His glory, too much not to do it.

I coach church planters to look at the ethnic diversity of schools and neighborhoods they are near. This will be an indicator how ethnically diverse their congregation can become.

Leaders are like point guards, we set people up to score.

We must, by God's grace, embody the vision. If not, we are duplicitous.

You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

We can choose the type of thoughts we repeat in our mind. Nothing can force us to pick any memory, circumstance or relationship without our permission.

All men and women have an equal need for love. When these needs are not fulfilled it is easy to have our feelings hurt, for which we blame our partner.

What do you get when you cross a herd of sheep with a herd of lemmings? A herd of venture capitalists.

The rights of man as the foundation of just Government had been long understood but the superstructures projected had been sadly defective

When you're just open but not honest, then you start free-associating garbage.

The memoir by women, read by female readers, is considered a market form, not "great literature."

The Kite Runner is a story of two boys and a father, and the strange love triangle that binds them.

Facts are only tools to gain control over yourself and other people.

My heart stopped twice. They had to stab me to drain the blood from my lungs because I was drowning in my own blood.