To me that's always a little satisfying - to find an underdeveloped topic and start developing it.

Filter your pain through the brevity of this life and the unending beauty of the next.

Others have promised and failed. But God has promised and succeeded. He loves you with an unfailing love.

There's an antidote to our fears- trust. If we trust God more,we can fear less.

My book centers in on the New Testament, the goal being to help a person who wants to understand the Bible to see how what God did as revealed in the New Testament will reveal to them their own personal story.

Christmas begins what Easter celebrates. The child in the cradle became the king on the cross. And because he did, there are no marks on my record. Just grace. His offer has no fine print. He didn't tell me, "Clean up before you come in." He offered, "Come in, and I'll clean you up." It's not my grip on him that matters but his grip on me. And his grip is sure. So is his presence in my life.

‎Mark it down: God loves you with an unearthly love. You can't win it by being winsome. You can't lose it by being a loser. But you can be blind enough to resist it