Solid team relationships (trust, respect, acceptance, courtesy, and mutual accountability) are the glue that holds the team together.

The church is not a theological classroom. It is a conversion, confession, repentance, reconciliation, forgiveness and sanctification center, where flawed people place their faith in Christ, gather to know and love him better, and learn to love others as he designed.

Harboring bitterness against people is actually confessing their sin to myself, over and over again. Anger is akin to confessing their sin to God, dissatisfied that he hasn't done something and placing myself in his position as judge.

Every time you ask for forgiveness, you declare that your life does not belong to you, but has been created for the purpose of Another.

When your ears hear and your eyes see the sin, weakness, or failure of your husband or wife, it is never an accident; it is always grace. God loves your spouse, and he is committed to transforming him or her by his grace, and he has chosen you to be one of his regular tools of change. So, he will cause you to see, hear, and experience your spouse's need for change so that you can be an agent of his rescue.

The church is not a theological classroom. It is a conversion, confession, repentance, reconciliation, forgiveness, and sanctification center, where flawed people place their trust in Christ, gather to know and love him better, and learn to love others as he has designed.

The cost of forgiveness is great, but the harvest of forgiveness is a beautiful thing,

The real burdens of suffering are made significantly more difficult when you carry them in a heart spiritually weakened by bitterness.

when you forget the grace that you've been given, it becomes very easy to respond to the people around you with nongrace.

The more you see your sin, the more you will respond tenderly to other sinners and want for them the same grace you have received.

The more you see your sin, the more you will respond tenderly to other sinners and want for them the same grace you have received. And as you taste new life, you will begin to celebrate, in fresh new ways, the grace that is yours in Christ Jesus.

They were convinced that they had made the mistake of marrying a messed-up person; they were convinced that the other had made them do things they would not otherwise have done; and they were convinced that they had no power to make the other change, although they had tried.