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

We have hearts that are capable of experiencing great love, but sometimes they get broken.

While some misuse their freedom to perpetrate evil, millions respond by feeling compelled to use their freedom to do good.

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.

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

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.

Through Biblical times, there have been great women warriors and now the sport is so populated that these are the women warriors that we have today in boxing, kickboxing, and MMA.

The reason you don’t like the Bible, you old sinner, is because it knows all about you.

I was taken in the Spirit to the burning bush on Mount Horeb, Moses’ “first ascension,” and allowed to witness the encounter he had with the Lord there. Throughout the visitation, I was enabled to know and feel the thoughts and emotions of Moses’ inner being. …

If the biblical account of creation in Genesis isn’t true, how can we trust the rest of the Bible?

Yes, religion and politics do mix. America is a nation based on biblical principles. Christian values dominate our government.

The Christmas spirit brings home to us-or should bring home to us-the profound Biblical truth that it is more blessed to give than to receive. Anything which inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.

Folks will quickly applaud you and tell you how much they admire you for “taking a stand” on biblical truth. Except if you quote Matt. 5:44 and invite people to apply it in any sort of meaningful, literal way.

If one takes a public stand against, say, most any sin you can think of, one is considered “courageous” and a “defender of the faith.”