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.

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.

In the great orchestra we call life, you have an instrument and a song, and you owe it to God to play them both sublimely.

The only mistake is not to risk making one.

How can a person deal with anxiety? You might try what one fellow did. He worried so much that he decided to hire someone to do his worrying for him. He found a man who agreed to be his hired worrier for a salary of $200,000 per year. After the man accepted the job, his first question to his boss was, "Where are you going to get $200,000 per year?" To which the man responded, "That's your worry.

I've never been surprised by God's judgment, but I'm still stunned by His grace.

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.