We serve a good God who oversees the affairs of mankind.

Blessed are those who know what on earth they are here on earth to do and set themselves about the business of doing it.

All preaching should be as creative as we can make it. We've been entrusted with such a treasure. To have anywhere from 50 to 5000 people who give us 30 minutes of their time to hear whatever we want to say - I think they deserve all the creativity that we can give.

When you read the Bible, it's as though it reads you.

For years I thought my assignment or the Church's assignment was to articulate the Gospel and nothing more. Now I believe that if we don't support the verbal expression of the Gospel with physical demonstration of compassion, we are not imitating Jesus.

My parents, they were good, godly people, but they never said, You need to write.

Just as your earthly house is a place of refuge, so God's house is a place of peace.