Yes, your family history has some sad chapters. But your history doesn't have to be your future. The generational garbage can stop here and now.

To the loved, a word of affection is a morsel; but to the love-starved, a word of affection can be a feast.

How does God deal with your bitter heart? He reminds you that what you have is more important than what you don't have. You still have your relationship with God. No one can take that.

No one can do everything, but everyone can do something

The most powerful life is the most simple life. The most powerful life is the life that knows where it's going, that knows where the source of strength is; it is the life that stays free of clutter and happenstance and hurriedness.

Michael Jordan once said that the most peaceful moments of his life were on a basketball court, because that's the only place he knew exactly what to do. And to me the most peaceful moments in my ministry are in the pulpit because that's when I really know what I'm going to do.

I know what I'll be preaching in the spring, what I'll be preaching in the summer, and what I'll be preaching next fall.