You'll never get to a person's soul until you understand their hurts.

Sometimes the very presence of God is barred by our presuppositions and our intense and constant desire for triumph.

Does that not sound odd to you? When God decides who should live or die, he is immoral, When you decide who should live or die, it's your moral right. There was a pin-drop silence.

It was not the volume of sin that sent Christ to the cross; it was the fact of sin.

The single most important thread in working through your disappointments is that your heart and mind ponder and grasp what the cross of Jesus Christ is all about. There is no pattern without the cross. There is no Good News without it. That is what the gospel is all about.

At the universities I visit, the exclusivity of Christ is challenged in every open forum - "How can you possibly talk about one God or one way when there are so many good options?"

The loneliest people in the world are those who have exhausted pleasure and come away empty.