Just when the truth about life sinks in, His truth starts to surface. He takes us by the hand and dares us not to sweep the facts under the rug but to confront them with him at our side.

Christmas is best pondered, not with logic, but with imagination.

Since you know God understands, you can boldly go to him.

Don't worry about having the right words; worry more about having the right heart. It's not eloquence he seeks, just honesty.

The Promised Land, for many people, though, is something that's far off in the future. People are saved, but they don't feel victory. They feel like they're in a wilderness and they're wandering. And so this book of Joshua gives us a picture of how we can come out of the wilderness in our own spiritual lives and enter into a season of victory.

I do believe that leaders have to be held to a higher standard, especially Christian leaders. I put myself in that camp.

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.