When we submit to God's plans, we can trust our desires. Our assignment is found at the intersection of God's plan and our pleasures.

God never promises to remove us from our struggles. He does promise, however, to change the way we look at them.

Fear may fill our world, but it doesn’t have to fill our hearts.

I've found great virtue in two-thirds of the way into the message; right before I'm really want to nail home a point, pausing to tell a joke or to tell a light-hearted story, because I know my audience has been working with me now for 20 or 25 minutes. And if I can get them to laugh, get oxygen into their system, it wakes up those who might be sleeping, so there's something about using a story to draw people back in right before you drive home your final point. In that case I think it's real legitimate just to use a story for story's sake.

Don't worry about having the right words; worry more about having the right heart. It's not eloquence he seeks, just honesty.

If relationships matter most then [at the end of our lives], shouldn't they matter most now?

God wants to help you find your way home.