Seeking happiness apart from a right relationship God is like trying to turn on a light that's unplugged.

Statistics show that a soldier's chances of survival in the front lines of combat are greater than the chances of an unborn child avoiding abortion. What should be the safest place to live in America - a mother's womb - is now the most dangerous place.

The currency of this world will be worthless at our death or at Christ's return, both of which are imminent.

Nothing is more often misdiagnosed than our homesickness for Heaven. We think that what we want is sex, drugs, alcohol, a new job, a raise, a doctorate, a spouse, a large-screen television, a new car, a cabin in the woods, a condo in Hawaii. What we really want is the person we were made for, Jesus, and the place we were made for, Heaven. Nothing less can satisfy us.

Give more as you make more. Remember: God prospers us not to raise our standard of living, but to raise our standard of giving.

If we can keep ourselves from interfering with the natural laws of life, mistakes can be our child's finest teachers.

I detest legalism. I certainly don't want to try to pour new wine into old wineskins, imposing superseded First Covenant restrictions on Christians. But at the same time, every New Testament example of giving goes far beyond the tithe. However, none falls short of it.