Fathers need to be tough and tender...you be tough for your family, be tender with your family. You protect them, and you be a safe place.

Fear is not always a sin but it always is an opportunity.

Repentance keeps sin from condemning us because Jesus died and scorned the shame.

If you really want to be a rebel, get a job, cut your grass, read your bible, and shut up. Because no one is doing that.

God picked a junior high girl [to be Jesus' mother]. Jesus was raised by a woman who today, we wouldn't even let her lead a bible study at a high school. But she could raise God.

If my words don't flow out of a heart that rests in God's control, sovereignty, then they come out of the heart that seeks control so I can get what I want.

You're either selfish, or you're a servant...but fundamentally selfish people are terrible friends, terrible lovers, terrible spouses, terrible Christians, terrible parents. They leave a terrible legacy. Will you be selfish? Will you be a servant?...A good marriage is a servant and a servant.