Is it possible for an unbaptized believer to be saved? Yes, definitely. Should every believer be baptized? Yes, definitely.

You can do something no one else can do in a fashion no one else can do it.

I have learned that my assignment is to write books for people who do not like to read books. I really try to connect with people who are not given to spending a lot of time with an open book. Pay day to me is when somebody comes up to me and says, "I never read books but I read yours." I have a heart for that person.

Hiding out with the enemy brings only temporary relief.

I spent the better part of a week trying to figure out how to organize these stacks of 30 years of conversations and dialogues. I finally began clustering them in these different categories, and I ended up with the ones you listed.It's interesting to me the kinds of questions I haven't been called to wrestle with. For example, I don't know what this says, but I'm not asked a lot of political questions.

How my relationship with my parents influenced my writing, really not at all. My dad was a mechanic, my mom a nurse.

In the great orchestra we call life, you have an instrument and a song, and you owe it to God to play them both sublimely.