Advice to aspiring ministers: Get in the Word. Stay in the Word. Master the Word. And for heaven's sake, preach the Word!

You are required to believe, to preach, and to teach what the Bible says is true, not what you want the Bible to say is true.

Doctrine divides, but doctrine also unites. It binds together the hearts of God's people who celebrate the truth of God together.

Christ told his disciples not to be anxious about tomorrow, but he never said not to consider tomorrow. Intelligent problem solving demands careful consideration of the future effects of present solutions.

We live in a time of crisis in the secular culture and in the church with regard to the beautiful.

The promises of God for tomorrow are the anchor for believers today.

Here then is the real problem of our negligence. We fail in our duty to study God's Word not so much because it is difficult to understand, not so much because it is dull and boring, but because it is work. Our problem is not a lack of intelligence or a lack of passion. Our problem is that we are lazy.