Anyone we come in contact with, we either offer them life, or we drain them.

In every encounter we either give life or we drain it; there is no neutral exchange.

Hope knows that if great trials are avoided great deeds remain undone and the possibility of growth into greatness of soul is aborted.

In essence, there is only one thing God asks of us - that we be men and women of prayer, people for whom God is everything and for whom God is enough. That is the root of peace. We have that peace when the gracious God is all we seek. When we start seeking something besides Him, we lose it.

The Good News of the gospel of grace cries out: We are all, equally, privileged but unentitled beggars at the door of God's mercy!

One of my realizations in such an earthy atmosphere was that many of the burning theological issues in the church were neither burning nor theological.

That which is denied cannot be healed.