Get honest with God, and your focus will shift from just seeing your problems - no matter how overwhelming they seem - to the grace of God.

The ultimate goal of the universe is to show the glory of God.

Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you. Don’t waste your pain; use it to help others.

The ground we have in common with unbelievers is not the Bible, but our common needs, hurts, and interests as human beings. You cannot start with a text expecting the unchurched to be fascinated by it. You must first capture their attention, and then move them to the truth of God's Word. By starting with a topic that interests the unchurched and then showing what the Bible says about it, you can grab their attention, disarm prejudices, and create an interest in the Bible that wasn't there before.

I'd rather have all my questions unanswered and walk with God than not walk with God and have all my questions answered.

Paul says that as Christians we can rejoice even in tough times because we have hope and because we know that God is working in our lives.

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.