When you teach on a familiar text, you're capitalizing on common knowledge. When you teach on an unfamiliar text, you're having to build a bridge of understanding, and we need to do that as well.

Gratitude develops faith. The surest path out of a slump is marked by the road sign "thank you, God."

We refuse to believe that this present world is the sum total of human existence.

Our kids were God's kids first... We tend to forget this fact, regarding our children as "our" children, as though we have the final say in their health and welfare. We don't. All people are God's people, including the small people who sit at our tables.

Real courage embraces the twin realities of current difficulty and ultimate triumph.

Today's belief is tomorrow's behavior. If you want to be happier person tomorrow, sow seeds of happiness today.

He saw you in your own Gethsemane and He didn't want you to be alone..He would rather go to hell for you than to haven without you.