“In reality, each thought we have carries with it a little spiritual power, a tug toward or away from God. No thought is purely neutral.”

The life of Abraham Lincoln is by most accounts an amazing study in character formation. Yet he was notoriously disorganized; he even had a file in his law office labeled If you can’t find it anywhere else, try looking here.

When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it’s done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.

Ever console or scold people hurt in human relationships that satisfaction comes from God alone? Stop. Adam’s fellowship with God was perfect, and God Himself declared Adam needed other humans.

God sees with utter clarity who we are. He is undeceived as to our warts and wickedness. But when God looks at us that is not all He sees. He also sees who we are intended to be, who we will one day become.

What repeatedly enters your mind and occupies your mind, eventually shapes your mind, and will ultimately express itself in what you do and who you become.

sometimes we do not realize how much we have to be grateful for until it is threatened.

Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.

Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.

Jesus associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.

It only makes sense to ask God for guidance in the context of a life committed to “seeking first the kingdom.”

The primary goal of spiritual life is human transformation.

Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done – like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.

The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.

We’d like to be humble…but what if no one notices?

One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.

The church is in the hope business.

My father is a very caring and generous individual.

Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.

To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.

Who would criticize the Jewish holocaust or Black slavery, and YET praise the benefits to Germans or Whites???

I shouldn’t dabble in television, web content, or even comic books…

How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]

Drink, live like the Greeks, eat, gorge.

To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.