The moment Mary touched God's face is the moment God made his case: there's no place he will not go.

All of my sermons become books. I've been accused of having no unpublished thought. I encourage pastors to do that. I think there are so many great sermons that never really get circulation.

One phrase summarizes the horror of hell. "God isn't there."

Our prayers may be awkward. Our attempts may be feeble. But since the power of prayer is in the One who hears it and not in the one who says it, our prayers do make a difference.

Our kids were God's kids first... We tend to forget this fact, regarding our children as "our" children, as though we have the final say in their health and welfare. We don't. All people are God's people, including the small people who sit at our tables.

He promises a lamp unto our feet, not a crystal ball into the future.

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