A friend of mine once said that Christians are like manure: Spread them out and they help everything grow better, but keep them in one big pile and they stink horribly. Which are you?

I opened my Bible to Matthew 10:32–33: “Whoever acknowledges me before men, I will also acknowledge him before my Father in heaven. But whoever disowns me before men, I will disown him before my Father in heaven.” I asked everyone to imagine what it must have felt like for Stan. One moment, he was at a memorial service saying to a crowd, “This is

Second, I remember that we are not alone. Even now there are thousands of beings in heaven watching what is going on down here—a “great cloud of witnesses,” the Scripture says.

When people tell me they don’t feel close to God, I ask them how often they share their faith.

I just want to be one more voice begging you to truly let go. Trust whatever He has for you. It will be far better than anything you can plan for yourself.

People who are obsessed with Jesus do not consider service a burden. Obsessed people take joy in loving God by loving His people (Matt. 13:44; John 15:8).

To that I would add, “Be careful not to turn others’ lives into the mold for your own.” Allow God to be as creative with you as He is with each of us.

God will never break a promise. It is not possible because faithful is what He is.

Satan, the great deceiver, loves it when we read Christian books and listen to sermons as ends in themselves. If we don’t actually change, we deceive ourselves.