My take on tithing in America is that it's a middle-class way of robbing God. Tithing to the church and spending the rest on your family is not a Christian goal. It's a diversion. The real issue is: How shall we use God's trust fund-namely, all we have-for His glory? In a world with so much misery, what lifestyle should we call our people to live? What example are we setting?

Christmas: the Son of God expressing the love of God to save us from the wrath of God so we could enjoy the presence of God.

There are only three kinds of Christians when it comes to world missions: zealous goers, zealous senders, and disobedient.

It is not surprising that prayer malfunctions when we try to make it a domestic intercom to call upstairs for more comforts in the den.

I've always wondered, am I a writer who preaches or a preacher who writes? I don't know. I love them both.

You never outgrow your need to preach to yourself the gospel.

Life and death! They seem like complete opposites-at great enmity with each other. But for Paul-and for all who share his faith-there is a unity, because the same great passion is fulfilled in both-namely, that Christ be magnified in this body-our bodies-whether by life or by death.