We May Be Unlovely Yet We Are

When I Repent, Here Is Where It Starts. I Try To Name My Sin As Honestly And As Specifically As Possible. Here Is What Repenting Is Not. It Is Not Excusing My Sin, Minimizing My Sin, It's Not Rationalizing My Sin ... Repentance Is Getting Painfully Honest With God.

The Decision To Grow Always Involves A Choice Between Risk And Comfort. This Means That To Be A Follower Of Jesus, You Must Renounce Comfort As The Ultimate Value Of Your Life.

One Of The Great Misconceptions About Spiritual Growth That Develops In A Lot Of Churches Is That Information Alone Is Adequate To Produce Transformed Human Beings. So If We Want To Have A Church Of Spiritually Mature People, Let's Just Keep Cramming More And More Information Into Them... Information Alone Is Not Adequate For The Transformation Of The Human Personality.

The Church Is In The Hope Business.

Over Time, Grit Is What Separates Fruitful Lives From Aimlessness.