HEAVEN knows the difference between SUNDAY morning and WEDNESDAY afternoon. God longs to speak as CLEARLY in the workplace as He does in the sanctuary. He longs to be WORSHIPED when we sit at the dinner table and not just when we come to His communion table. You may go days without THINKING of Him, but there's never a moment when He's not thinking of YOU.

The past does not have to be your prison. You have a voice in your destiny. You have a say in your life. You have a choice in the path you take.

History is not an endless succession of meaningless circles but a directed movement toward a great event.

But it is in storms that God does his finest work, for it is in storms that God has our keenest attention

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

If you're feeling pain, express that to the Lord. If you're feeling worried, express those worries. One passage that gives me comfort is in Psalms, Chapter 11, verse 3, it reads, "When all that is good falls apart, what can good people do?" That's really the question of the day.

I didn't want to just write stories that were entertaining. Nor did I want to be so scholarly that people couldn't digest it.