“In Biblical times, a man could have as many wives as he could afford. Just like today.”

Wisdom doesn’t automatically come with old age. Nothing does – except wrinkles. It’s true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.

Fighting fire with fire only gets you ashes!

It is almost impossible to throw dirt on someone without getting a little on yourself

The less you talk, the more you’re listened to.

If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.

There is no end to the undeserved misery and mischief it could create.

Never give a golfer an ultimatum unless you’re prepared to lose.

A bad habit never disappears miraculously, it’s an undo-it-yourself project.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married.

It is totally unconscionable to subject defenseless animals to mutilation and death, just so a company can be the first to market a new shade of nail polish or a new, improved laundry detergent. It’s cruel, it’s brutal, it’s inhumane, and most people don’t want it.

A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.

Women who miscalculate are called mothers.

True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

Love is what enables us to bridge the gap of disappointment when others don’t live up to the expectations we have of them.

Kissing power is stronger than will power: Girls need to “prove their love” like a moose needs a hat rack.

Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?

It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.

Through biblical community in their local church, through honesty and transparency, sharing what it is that troubles them, being accountable.

I’m looking at offering biblical holiness, not an unrealistic expectation for people that will leave them disappointed.

I am seventy years old, a gray age weighted with uncompromising biblical allusions. It ought to have a gray outlook, but it hasn’t, because a glint of dazzling sunshine is dancing merrily ahead of me.

Scientific accuracy confirms the Bible is the Word of God.

Give God what’s right, not what’s left!

As I’ve taught our congregation, within the Christian faith the question of homosexuality is not a question of biblical authority, but biblical interpretation.