Occupation: Author Birth: 1949
It's easy to fall into the trap of feeling like you've heard everything before and that you have nothing left to learn..
We're concerned with how things turn out; God seems more concerned with how we turn out..
If we comprehend what Christ has done for us, then surely out of gratitude we will strive to live 'worthy' of such great love. We will strive for hol….
Someone asked the Swiss physician & author Paul Tournier how he helped his patients get rid of their fears. He replied, 'I don't. Everything that's w….
Love deems this world worth rescuing..
There is an "offense" to the Gospel no matter how graciously we present it. It includes the message that God, not humanity, is the ultimate judge of ….
The giants of the faith all had one thing in common: neither victory nor success, but passion..
I would say my being disheartened has more to do with American culture than anything else. We are becoming a very shallow culture. My goodness, the c….
A God wise enough to create me and the world I live in is wise enough to watch out for me..
Why pray? Evidently, God likes to be asked. God certainly does not need our wisdom or our knowledge, nor even the information contained in our prayer….
God formed an alliance based on the world as it is, full of flaws, whereas prayer calls God to account for the world as it should be..
...to see that God does answer, in great things as well as small, the prayers of those who put their trust in Him will strengthen the faith of multit….
People who think they are free eventually end up slaves to their own desires, and those who give their freedom away to the only One you can trust wit….
Sociologists have a theory of the looking-glass self: You become what the most important person in your life (wife, father, boss, etc.) thinks you ar….
prayer, and only prayer, restores my vision to one that more resembles God's. i awake from blindness to see that wealth lurks as a terrible danger, n….
I ask God most often that we would be an unbroken line of Christians until Christ shall return..
Who would complain if God allowed one hour of suffering in an entire lifetime of comfort? Why complain about a lifetime that includes suffering when ….
I have found that lived out, the hardest place to be a Christian is to be in a nice prosperous country with a lot of entertainment options because th….
O God, make the bad people good, and the good people nice.
Pain narrows vision. The most private of sensations, it forces us to think of ourselves and little else..
We whine about things we have little control over; we lament what we believe ought to be changed..