On Thanksgiving we do just everything except give thanks. We eat, we watch football, we have a good time with family. Almost nobody gives thanks to God at Thanksgiving, unless there's a short prayer before we eat.

The church that doesn't want to grow is saying to the world, "go to hell."

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

What's true or right is NEVER determined by popularity or polls. The right thing is often unpopular since it's harder to do.

You were born by his purpose and for his purpose.

The only reason you can love God or anybody else is because God first loved you. And he showed that love by sending Jesus Christ to Earth to die for you.

Obviously there have been historically many different theories of the atonement and I think each of them has a part. But I think fundamentally it is the substitutionary understanding that God - Jesus took our payment and you can't understand.