The choice is yours: Enjoy a delicious meal of, say, veal fantarella with grilled vegetables. Or spend a quiet hour reading David Gregory's book. You may find an altogether different sort of hunger has been sated by the final page. Brilliant in its simplicity, fearless in its presentation of the truth, Dinner with a Perfect Stranger is one invitation you'll want to RSVP.

If the Almighty directs our steps, we've no need to look back over our shoulders.

His Name will never fall. His Name will never be defeated. His Name will never be reduced to rubble. A tower that’s stronger than any man-made fortress and large enough to see from a distance, even if we’ve lost our way.

It's not where we've been that matters to God. It's who we are becoming in Him.

The head thinks, the hands labor, but it's the heart that laughs.

My heart's desire is to find more opportunities to give myself away and teach my children the joy of service at the same time.

Hard times are purposeful, meant to refine and redirect us. They're not arbitrary or random, and they're definitely not cruel.