As long as you pretend to be self-sufficient, you short-circuit God's power in your life. You need to admit your inadequacy and say, "God, I can't handle this!"

From the very beginning, I started preaching when I was 16 years old. So I began studying Scripture very seriously. I had done over a hundred revivals in Baptist churches before I was 20. So I am studying the Scripture as a kid and I'm noticing that Christians often wanted to excuse God from things that God doesn't need excusing from.

At most, you will live a hundred years on earth, but you will spend forever in eternity.

Jesus meets every one of our deepest needs. And what we need to do is accept his gift of a pastor-given, purposeful living home in heaven.

In deep pain, people don't need logic, advice, encouragement, or even Scripture. They just need you to show up and shut up.

The key to friendship with God, he said, is not changing what you do, but changing your attitude toward what you do.

Time is your most precious gift, because you only have a set amount of it.