The Bible teaches that history began in the Middle East, and someday history will end in the Middle East.

Today, we come together to confess our need of God. Those perpetrators who took us on to tear us apart, it has worked the other way. It has backfired; it has brought us together.

I have been asked hundreds of times in my life why God allows tragedy and suffering. I have to confess that I really do not know the answer totally, even to my own satisfaction. I have to accept, by faith, that God is sovereign, and He is a God of love and mercy and compassion in the midst of suffering.

Because God is love, He could not completely cast man aside.

I think that if I would talk on a political subject, if I talk about it, it would divide the audience on that issue. That's not my issue.

I never imagined anybody would ever come out to hear me preach. I'm just a country dairy farmer from North Carolina.

In my travels I have found that those who keep Heaven in view remain serene and cheerful in the darkest day. If the glories of Heaven were more real to us, if we lived less for material things and more for things eternal and spiritual, we would be less easily disturbed by this present life.