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.

Tragically, some people believe they are going to heaven when they die just because a few drops of water were sprinkled over their heads a few weeks after their birth. They have no personal faith, have never made a personal decision, and are banking on a hollow ceremony to save them. How absurd.

God wants the world to see what God can do with his purchased possessions. So he prunes you.

I noticed people would read these short articles I was assigned to write for our church bulletin and they would say, Boy, thats good stuff. I got letters from people around the country saying, Thats really good. And I thought, Is it really?

The maker of the stars would rather die for you than live without you. And that is a fact. So if you need to brag, brag about that.

Relationships don't thrive because the guilty are punished but because the innocent are merciful.

Sometimes I wonder if we don't see Christ's love as much in the people he tolerated as in the pain he endured.