If you are 8 hours a day in a job you hate, you're not going to be a very good spouse; it can contribute to chemical dependency, financial mismanagement.

I choose joy... I will invite my God to be the God of circumstance. I will refuse the temptation to be cynical... the tool of the lazy thinker. I will refuse to see people as anything less than human beings, created by God. I will refuse to see any problem as anything less than an opportunity to see God.

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.

I want a real take-home quality to the sermon, so I built the whole sermon series around the word grace, those five letters.

When God gives an assignment, he also gives the skill. Study your skills, then, to reveal your assignment.

God never said that the journey would be easy, but He did say that the arrival would be worthwhile.

He promises a lamp unto our feet, not a crystal ball into the future.