I get one hour, really 25 minutes in a sermon on a weekend, to combat all the hours of the week that people are told you are what you have through billboards, commercials, and sitcoms, and so forth.

If you're looking for a place with no change, try a soda machine.

Jesus will empty the tombs and melt the winter of death.

The meaning of life. The wasted years of life. The poor choices of life. God answers the mess of life with one word: 'grace.'

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

To see sin without grace is despair. To see grace without sin is arrogance. To see them in tandem is conversion.

You're special-not because of what you have. You're special because of who you are.