Essentials for fruitful ministry: - Love well at home. - Be open-handed. - Pursue friends, not followers. - Invest in people who can't give back. - Prioritize character over success. - Invite honest feedback. - Have mentors. - Read the Bible every day. - Pray. - Repent often.

America isn’t perfect. But the principles at the heart of America are. Our job today is to follow in the footsteps of the suffragettes, and all who’ve poured their hearts into making our country’s promises a reality. One of the best ways we can do that is to vote.

Headlines: Protestors gather after police shoot and kill a black man in South LA Actual story: Armed man assaults police officers. Gets shot. Race is irrelevant. Mindless people protest anyway.

My kids, so far have no racial identity. We've deliberately treated skin color the same as hair color and eye color in my house. A piece of who you are but it doesn't define you. They're aware that some people in the world believe, wrongly, that skin color is important. We do not

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Speaking truth.

Apathy is a bigger problem than atheism for Christianity.

A church should not simply have a missions department. It should wholly exist to be a mission.

The Christian theories of justice are those of Augustine and Aquinas. Both thinkers sought to ground justice in biblical truth.

Most do not realize that the idea of individual human rights came not from the Enlightenment but from 12th cent medieval Christian jurists and lawyers who believed in the image of God. (See the work of Brian Tierney and Tom Holland)

Self-created meaning can always be destroyed by suffering.

We are among the biggest fools in history if we keep on paying people to make us hate each other. Whether it is called by pretty names like “multiculturalism,” “diversity” or “gender awareness,” that is what it all boils down to.

If we are merely the product of evolution on what basis can we object to powerful people oppressing marginalized ones? Strong>the weak

Be at peace. What God decrees about the future is as certain as everything that has already taken place in the past. If He promises to do something, He will do it.

Pride is about my glory. Humility is about God’s glory.

If there is not equality of outcomes among people born to the same parents and raised under the same roof, why should equality of outcomes be expected—or assumed—when conditions are not nearly so comparable?

This is how D. L. Moody settled the deep theological question of election in practical, everyday terms: "The elect are the 'whosoever wills' and the nonelect are 'the whosoever wont’s.'" Well said!

86% of our COVID ICU admissions over the past 21 days have been fully vaccinated. Patients and their families are frustrated and don’t understand why they are so sick though I suspect some are waking up.

People don’t reject the Bible because it contradicts itself; they reject the Bible because it contradicts them.

My prayer life (and entire life!) changed when I realized that God is not under any obligation to make me succeed according to my idea of success.