The pulpit is no place for self-promotion. It is a great place for self-deprecation.

Waiting is a sustained effort to stay focused on God through prayer and belief.

What Christ does in us and through us will always be 'exceedingly abundantly above all we ask or think.'

In the great orchestra we call life, you have an instrument and a song, and you owe it to God to play them both sublimely.

One of the greatest gifts we can give people is the hope that their death is nothing to fear - you know, not that it has no fear in it, but the promise of scripture is that God will lead us through the valley of the shadow of death.

Someday I want to go back and maybe write another book on those seven sayings. I just think they are kind of like a table of contents to the Christian hope. They invite us to go into all the aspects of the heart of Jesus. Everything about them from the drama, the setting, the passion around them - I think the seven sayings of the cross are powerful.

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.