Discover this mystery: as you help others face their days, you put life into your own. And life is exactly what many people need.

It works well for me to go ahead and prepare the sermon with a chapter in mind. What that does is to force me to be very thrifty in my language, tighten up my words and not ramble so much. It puts some fiber in the sermon.

Waiting is an expectant patience. It's a patience that says, "I don't know what God is going to do, but I know God is going to do something."

Whether or not storms come, we can not choose. But where we stare during a storm, that we can.

When you give a gift to one of God's children, you give a gift to God.

His is a joy which consequences cannot quench. His is a peace which circumstances cannot steal.

We've got to realize there's something bigger than who is in the White House. And that is the spirit of camaraderie and peace that keeps our nation together.