Your pain has a purpose. Your problems, struggles, heartaches, and hassles cooperate toward one end-the glory of God.

All preaching should be as creative as we can make it. We've been entrusted with such a treasure. To have anywhere from 50 to 5000 people who give us 30 minutes of their time to hear whatever we want to say - I think they deserve all the creativity that we can give.

Apple trees bear apples, wheat stalks produce wheat, and forgiven people forgive people.

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

The ultimate solution to POVERTY is found in the COMPASSION of God's people.

We need hope. There's nothing worse than to live a life of despair. For a person to have no hope just sucks the blue out of every sky.

What I'm urging people to do is trust in the sovereignty of God.