The Gospel worldview equips the artist with a unique combination of optimism and realism about life.

To take a person out of slavery takes an instant. To take slavery out of a person takes a process.

The gospel has two parts. It has the part that says you're a sinner, and it has the part that says you're loved and accepted.

If God is not at the center of your life, something else is.

If you say: I believed in God, I trusted God and He didn't come through - You only trusted God to meet your agenda.

The best people often have terrible lives. Job is one example, and Jesus—the ultimate ‘Job,’ the only truly, fully innocent sufferer — is another.

Remember that according to the Bible, the heart is not primarily the emotions but rather the seat of our fundamental commitments and trusts, and therefore it is the control center of the whole life. So to preach to the heart means to go right for the commanding commitments of people's lives that drive their desires, thinking, feeling, and action.