At our church I do not endorse politicians publicly. Because I am afraid that if I endorse one candidate, it would keep somebody from coming to our church. So I made one exception one time to put one bumper sticker on my car, but I don't ever do it anymore.

CAN is 100 times more important than IQ

The only mistake is not to risk making one.

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.

That's what I'm hoping we can all do, is come together in a spirit of prayer.

Fear creates a form of spiritual amnesia

Someday I want to go back and maybe write another book on those seven sayings. I just think they are kind of like a table of contents to the Christian hope. They invite us to go into all the aspects of the heart of Jesus. Everything about them from the drama, the setting, the passion around them - I think the seven sayings of the cross are powerful.