Birth: February 9, 1954
Fallen man is both terrified of vulnerability and committed to maintaining independence..
We try to bargain with God...I will follow you but don't touch my children, or my husband, don't give me cancer...We are afraid our surrender to God ….
I would rather walk every day in the darkness with a God who remains a mystery to me than in the light with a God I completely understand..
An untested faith is an unreliable faith..
Joy begins with our convictions about spiritual truths we're willing to bet our lives on, and truths that are lodged so deeply within us that they pr….
That's the essence of our faith. It's living with hope in the face of mystery. We live a life of faith completely full of hope, staring mystery right….
When you are wanting to comfort someone in their grief take the words 'at least' out of your vocabulary. In saying them you minimise someone else's p….
Joy is the settled assurance that God is in control of all the details of my life, the quiet confidence that ultimately everything is going to be all….
In the United States, if one family out of every four churches adopted a child, there would be no orphans in the country.
The greatest weapon we have against evil is doing good in Jesus' name..
People with depression have something very valuable to teach us... how to live when it doesn't ever feel good..
Believe that there is a purpose in your pain..