Relationships are always worth restoring.

Your value is not determined by your valuables, and God says the most valuable things in life are not things!

Remember that your character is the sum total of your habits.

I am motivated by the fact that in the next 365 days, 136,000 Californians will die and most of them will go into an eternity without Christ. In the next 365 days, 2.4 million Americans will die; most of them will go into eternity without Christ. In the next 365 days, 74 million people in the world will go into eternity without Christ and without hope. I can't live with that.

My first reaction in pastoral care is not to explain. And again, I don't think the primary purpose of the Bible is to explain suffering. I never have, because the actual explanations are often inadequate. I think the primary purpose of Scripture is to say I am all you need in this suffering and I need comfort.

Nothing else you do will ever matter as much as helping people establish an eternal relationship with God.

Because every day of your life was written on God's calendar before you were born, everything that happens to you has spiritual significance.