As long as you hate your enemy, a jail door is closed and a prisoner is taken. But when you try to understand and release your foe from your hatred, then the prisoner is released and that prisoner is you.

I really enjoy making people laugh; I've discovered that's a great technique. That's as powerful as stirring their sorrow, stirring their compassion, because that befriends you to them. It engages you with them and then you can come in; they will remember that point.

God crowns us. Most people crown their Christmas trees with either an angel or a star. God uses both.

I think that I speak a lot like I write.

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

God's blessings are dispensed according to the riches of his grace, not according to the depth of our faith.

I struggle with trying to be a good pastor of a large church.