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.

First open your heart, then open your Bible.

Relationships are always worth restoring.

Building friendships with people from dissimilar backgrounds and diverse perspectives will make you wiser and more creative.

Your abilities are the map to God's will for your life. It points the direction. When you know what you're good at, then you can know what God wants you to do with your life.

Learning to love unselfishly is not an easy task. It runs counter to our self-centered nature.

You measure a church's strength, not by its seating capacity but by its sending capacity.