No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply.

It is a great privilege, as well as our responsibility, to pray for our government leaders.

Only God who made us can touch us and change us and save us from ourselves.

I trust Jesus with all my tomorrows, knowing that He will solve the mystery of life beyond the grave.

A calling is you feel - you look out and see the need - maybe it's the need for the poor, to help poor people. Maybe it's the need to get involved in the race problem, as Martin Luther King was - felt called.

Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything.

MAN is a social animal, gregarious by nature, and finds his greatest sense of security and satisfaction in the company of others who share his interests and attitudes. Of all the many groups into which humans have collected themselves, of all the many tribes, clans, organizations, and societies throughout history, none has been so powerful, so far-reaching, or more universal than the church.