“If ‘everything happens for a reason,’ then every act of evil is ultimately God’s doing.”

Neither is it a science textbook nor a guidebook for public policy.

As a pastor, I have a deep desire to lead people to God and encourage people to pray, read the Bible, and carry their faith into every part of their lives.

I’m convinced many of America’s heroes are public school teachers and administrators.

In America our public schools are intended to be religiously neutral.

You can keep on driving it but eventually you will ruin the engine.

Hope is a decision we make, a choice to believe that God can take the adversity, the disappointment, the heartache, and the pain of our journeys and use these to accomplish his purposes.

I suspect that here theists and atheists would agree: Human beings have within them the ability to choose evil or good.

I am a pastor, and I teach and preach the Bible to my congregation every week. But the Bible is not a manufacturer’s handbook.

We live in bodies that are fearfully and wonderfully made, yet they are not immune to illness and pain.

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

Jesus’ own witness of sacrificial love and forgiveness, and his work to heal the sick and care for those in need, represent God’s ways and vision for us.

I love the Bible. I read it every day. I spend 10 hours a week studying it. It has affected my life in profound ways. I am inspired when I read it.

Husband, when you tell your wife to go for counseling alone (because you think going to see a counselor is a sign you have failed) is like having a car you love overheat and deciding it’s not manly to take it to the mechanic.

Many of these people do what they do because of their faith.

God seeks to influence humanity. This is at the heart of the Christmas story. It is the story of light coming into the darkness, of a Savior to show us the way, of light overcoming the darkness, of God’s work to save the world.

Our teachers and schools are neither to endorse nor to inhibit religion. I believe this is a very good thing.