The idea of a spiritual heart transplant is a vivid image to me; once you have the heart of somebody else inside you, then that heart is there. Jesus' heart is inside me, and my heart is gone. So if God were to place a stethoscope against my chest, he would hear the heart of Jesus Christ beating.

See your enemies, not as God's failures, but as God's projects.

God has high plans for you and me.

Someday I want to go back and maybe write another book on those seven sayings. I just think they are kind of like a table of contents to the Christian hope. They invite us to go into all the aspects of the heart of Jesus. Everything about them from the drama, the setting, the passion around them - I think the seven sayings of the cross are powerful.

Since our greatest need was forgiveness, God sent us a Savior. He became like us, so we could become like Him.

Thats usually what I gravitate to, I read The Perfect Storm, then I read Into Thin Air .

A nation is blessed when it has godly leaders.