Does the presence of pain mean the absence of God? I try to help people see that God uses pain, that pain is one of the ways God shapes us into the kind of beings He wants us to be for eternity.

Fear results in fight or flight. Anxiety creates doom and gloom. Fear is the pulse that pounds when you see a coiled rattlesnake in your front yard. Anxiety is the voice that tells you, Never, ever, for the rest of your life, walk barefooted through the grass. There might be a snake...somewhere.

I'm first a pastor and then a writer.

I think we pray, we make a clear-headed decision, and then we quit being so mean to each other. We've got to stop that.

God saves. Specifically he will save his people from their sins.

When no one is watching, live as if someone is.

I remember enjoying writing those, theres two clues of a gift: you enjoy doing it and people enjoy you doing it.