If the purpose of life is just to live this life and then die, it's hard to answer the purpose of pain question; but if we can help people see from an eternal perspective - that all of this is working together to prepare us for something higher than we've ever imagined, more noble than we've ever dreamed - then we discover some hope that we can hold on to.

Don't quit. For if you do, you may miss the answer to your prayers.

December is the most difficult month. Medications for insomnia or depression go up during the month of December. A lot of people who experience loss feel that loss magnified in December. Everybody seems happy and you feel all alone. You're not all alone.

Our moods may shift, but God's doesn't. Our minds may change, but God's doesn't. Our devotion may falter, but God's never does. Even if we are faithless, He is faithful, for He cannot betray himself. He is a sure God.

Compassion in evangelical churches is out of balance. When I talk about it, I get a lot of glazed expressions.

If there are a thousand steps between us and God, He will take all but one. He will leave the final one for us. The choice is ours.

God loves people just the way they are, but He loves them too much to leave them that way!