He saw you in your own Gethsemane and He didn't want you to be alone..He would rather go to hell for you than to haven without you.

A story does that: it will reach out and hook somebody and hold them for just a few moments while you unpack this story in their presence.

People of each generation in the twentieth century "were three times more likely to experience depression" than people of the preceding generation.

Initially, when I first became a Christian and got into ministry, my thought was that God existed to make my life better and to take me to Heaven. Now I realize that it is not about me at all. It is all about God and that He did this to display His plan to restore the Earth to the Garden of Eden state.

One person told me that Christians believe in a king. We believe in a King Jesus who oversees the affairs of mankind. Maybe we're reaching for an earthly king.

I know what I'll be preaching in the spring, what I'll be preaching in the summer, and what I'll be preaching next fall.

Which would you prefer? To be king of the mountain for a day? Or to be a child of God for eternity?