Unmet expectations are tough when it's your wife or your husband, but it's really tough when it's God. And yet, it can be a time of growth and a time of faith, a time of understanding who God is.

There are many things in life over which you have no choice. But the greatest activity of life is well within your dominion. You can choose what you think about. You can be the air traffic controller of your mental airport. You occupy the control tower and can direct the mental traffic of your world. Thoughts circle above, coming and going. If one of them lands, it's because you gave it permission. If it leaves, it's because you directed it to do so. You can select your thought pattern.

All my books come out of sermons, and I'm really a pastor who writes rather than a writer who pastors.

On the eve of the cross, Jesus made his decision. He would rather go to hell for you than go to heaven without you.

I think a story is an attention grabber. I think it's a truth conveyor. Those are two great features of a good story.

For those who never pray, maybe now you will. For those of us who attempt to pray, maybe we can pray more.

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!