I'm first a pastor and then a writer.

I try to help people see they're going to have these times in which they turn away, in which they deny Christ and their faith grows cold, their convictions weakened; but Jesus is waiting.

The purpose of the Bible is simply to proclaim God's plan to save His children. It asserts that man is lost and needs to be saved. And it communicates the message that Jesus is the God in the flesh sent to save His children.

If God had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it.

The worst part of all is that, without forgiveness, bitterness is all that is left

Regardless of the circumstances that surrounded your arrival, you are not an accident. God planned you before you were born.

Fredrick Buechner kind of loosened up my clerical collar, you might say.