The enemy doesn't care how many days you live as long as you don't live in the days you have.

Most of what I have seen, the churches that are growing are the best are those that are nondenominational. But I don't think it's because they are nondenominational. I think that there's a certain method by which they go about reaching out to people that are not as traditional as your mainland churches generally do.

The traditional churches are having to transition into new methodologies and new ways of reaching people and they are starting to understand that and looking for ways they can increase their relevance to the contemporary society.

My mother would take the Band-Aid off, clean the wound, and say, "Things that are covered don't heal well." Mother was right. Things that are covered do not heal well.

We have a tendency to want the other person to be a finished product while we give ourselves the grace to evolve.

There are rooms for traditional and contemporary and hip hop Gospel music.

Children are not unforgiving. You can punish them and they will hug you in a few minutes.