When you let people put you up on a pedestal, you step one step in any direction, and you're going to go down.

There is nothing more important than parents passing on a generational legacy of faith and values to their children.

Joy comes form knowing God loves me, knows who I am and where I'm going ... that my future is secure as I rest in Him.

Clearly, unless the Lord chooses to explain Himself to us, which often He does not, His motivation and purposes are beyond the reach of mortal man. What this means in practical terms is that many of our questions - especially those that begin with the word 'why' - will have to remain unanswered for the time being.

We Americans are living a lifestyle of exhaustion. We don't have time for ourselves, much less for each other and our children.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and halfway closed there after.

We are so busy giving our children what we never had that we forget to give them what we did have.