I think everyone does selective reading. Everybody has a filter, and that is real easy for critics to see things from their perspectives, and I'm going, I didn't mean that at all. And believers do the same.

The purpose of influence is to "speak up for those who have no influence." (Pr.31:8) It's not about you.

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.

I do believe in hell. Jesus spoke more about hell than heaven - I trust him as the authority, not you, me or anybody else. If hell is not real, then Jesus was a liar and God has a lot of explaining to do on His justice and things like that.

If you aren't making any mistakes, you aren't innovating. If you're making the same mistakes, you aren't learning.

If you have felt hopeless, hold on! Wonderful changes are going to happen in your life as you begin to live it on purpose.

I can't imagine God not allowing my dog into heaven.