Here's what I really love: I love a funny story that I can tag a serious line on the end of.

Sentences are like just caught fish. Spunky today, stinky tomorrow.

When God is all you have, then all you have, is all you need.

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

The One who saved your soul longs to remake your heart. Let's fix our eyes on Jesus. Perhaps in seeing Him, we will see what we can become!

I think we pray, we make a clear-headed decision, and then we quit being so mean to each other. We've got to stop that.

It works well for me to go ahead and prepare the sermon with a chapter in mind. What that does is to force me to be very thrifty in my language, tighten up my words and not ramble so much. It puts some fiber in the sermon.