Of course you'll encounter trouble. But behold a God of power who can take any evil and turn it into a door of hope.

I believe the old cliché, 'God helps those who help themselves,' is not only misleading but often dead wrong. My most spectacular answers to prayers have come when I was so helpless, so out of control as to be able to do nothing at all for myself.

The cross stands as the final symbol that no evil exists that God cannot turn into a blessing. He is the living Alchemist who can take the dregs from the slag-heaps of life - disappointment, frustration, sorrow, disease, death, economic loss, heartache - and transform the dregs into gold.

in rejecting secrecy I had also rejected the road to cynicism.

Often God has to shut a door in our face, so that He can subsequently open the door through which He wants us to go.

Poverty is a scandal of our times because it CAN be changed.

The unfolding of our friendship with the Father will be a never-ending revelation strretching on into eternity