Life...as God intended it enables us to live above the drag of fear, superstition, shame, pessimism, guilt, anxiety, worry, and all the negativity that keeps people from seizing each day as a gift from Him.

Noise and crowds have a way of siphoning our energy and distracting our attention, making prayer an added chore rather than a comforting relief

To be used of God. Is there anything more encouraging, more fulfilling? Perhaps not, but there is something more basic: to meet with God.

We aren't just thrown on this earth like dice tossed across a table. We are lovingly placed here for a purpose

If you allow it, [suffering] can be the means by which God brings you His greatest blessings.

There is plenty of television. There are plenty of talk shows. There are plenty of comedians. But there is not plenty of worship of the true and living God.

The best tests of my Christian growth occur in the mainstream of life, not in the quietness of my study