Truth can arrive within the story and ride latent - a bit incognito - within a story, and people are more prone to receive it.

Just when the truth about life sinks in, His truth starts to surface. He takes us by the hand and dares us not to sweep the facts under the rug but to confront them with him at our side.

Praise is the highest occupation of any being

Usually I'm able to prepare a message about two to three weeks in advance.I know some preachers don't like that. They want to be finishing it on Friday before they preach it on Sunday, but our worship team really likes me to get it done way in advance.

What Christ does in us and through us will always be 'exceedingly abundantly above all we ask or think.'

If God is enough for you, then you'll always have enough, because you'll always have God.

All of my sermons become books. I've been accused of having no unpublished thought. I encourage pastors to do that. I think there are so many great sermons that never really get circulation.