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.

You know what I find amazing is within Christianity it is not uncommon to find [married] people who don't have sexual intimacy, don't have emotional intimacy, don't have spiritual intimacy, don't pray together, don't do their life together, don't put their schedules together, don't put their budgets together, but they don't get divorced. So they can pat themselves on the back and say, 'We're good Christians.' They're divorced in everything but the paperwork.

Even a cursory reading of the book of Ecclesiastes shows that culture is a stationary bike that each generation climbs on in hopes of getting somewhere only to die and fall off so that the new young stud can take his turn peddling and, like a fool, make pronouncements about his progress. We would be wise to see postmodernity as simply the new guy on the old bike and not mistake cultural change for kingdom progress.

I study the Bible all week, pray to the Lord, and then I speak from my heart. It's all about brutal honesty.

Idols tend to be good things that you have turned into god things, which therefore become bad things

Spirituality, without the Holy Spirit, is demonic.

Study the Bible like a soldier on a mission, not a scholar on a sabbatical.