Christ lived the life we could not live and took the punishment we could not take to offer the hope we cannot resist.

I was never really lead by [my parents] and didnt sense any leading from the Lord to go into writing.

If you knew that only a few would care that you came, would you still come? If you knew that those you loved would laugh in your face, would you still care? If you knew that the tongues you made would mock you, the mouths you made would spit at you, the hands you made would crucify you, would you still make them? Christ did.

The cross is where God forgave his children without lowering his standards.

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.

Worship is the thank you that can't be silenced

Remember, you are special because I made you. And I don't make mistakes.