I see life as both a gift and a responsibility. My responsibility is to use what God has given me to help His people in need.

In various ways all of us should be constantly finding people and situations that are dead, buried, and covered up in order to help bring them to the light because THE GOD THAT WE SERVE is a God of LIGHT, a God of LOVE, and a God of CARING.

We want to make it socially, morally, politically and religiously unacceptable to have substandard housing and homelessness.

It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts.

The only safe investment one can make in life is what is given away.

Nobody loves a good worship service more than I do, but we are called to make religion real, to make our faith come alive. Helping others have a decent place to live is one way to do that and it doesn't take too long for others to recognize it, too.

The theology of the hammer embraces wholeheartedly the idea that the love of God and love of man must be blended. The word and the deed must come together. One without the other is devoid of meaning … As the deed gets closer to the word, God gets closer to us. The results are always wonderful — and sometimes spectacular!