You are God's child. His creation. Destined for heaven. You are a part of his family.

I try to help people see that God uses pain, that pain is one of the ways God shapes us into the kind of beings He wants us to be for eternity.

My first encounters with faith came about the time I was a Boy Scout, at about 14 or 15. I made the logical deduction that they operate the same way; I treated my faith like earning a merit badge, and everything about Christianity was about earning merit badges.

To me that's always a little satisfying - to find an underdeveloped topic and start developing it.

Your challenge is not your challenge. Your challenge is the way you think about your challenge. Your problem is not your problem; it is the way you look at it.

Want to learn to forgive? Then consider how you've been forgiven.

One phrase summarizes the horror of hell. "God isn't there."