If anybody understands God's order for his children, it's someone who has rescued an orphan from despair, for that is what God has done for us. God has adopted you. God sought you, found you, signed the papers and took you home.

Pastoring the flock with words. I love that. We always have a prayer time in the middle of our service. We take about eight or ten minutes before I preach, after we've sung, and invite people to come forward for prayer. That's a tender moment to me. I don't preach much in that, but I like to speak to the people.

Jesus will empty the tombs and melt the winter of death.

I could easily go through all my books and mark the ones that were original, mark the ones that were adapted or pre-published that I've found. I'm guessing though that probably 75% of them are personal events. I just love a personal story.

When Jesus died on the cross, so did your sin; when He rose from the dead, so did your HOPE.

God understands how you feel and has faced what you face.

Yesterday you can't alter, but your reaction to yesterday you can. The past you cannot change, but your response to your past you can.