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.

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 am a pastor, and I teach and preach the Bible to my congregation every week. But the Bible is not a manufacturer's handbook. Neither is it a science textbook nor a guidebook for public policy.

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.

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

We are all more similar than we usually realize. So much of the suffering we do in our life is because of obsession with self.

We live in bodies that are fearfully and wonderfully made, yet they are not immune to illness and pain. We have hearts that are capable of experiencing great love, but sometimes they get broken.

Christians believe that God is everywhere and is involved in our lives at every moment, whether we publicly acknowledge God or not.

The Bible calls us to love our neighbors, and to do justice and love kindness, not to indiscriminately kill one another.

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

I'm convinced many of America's heroes are public school teachers and administrators. Many of these people do what they do because of their faith.

But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.

When we choose to live a heart-centered life, we've chosen to live in the Light.

The bigger the person, the more their actions affect the world. If they live, perhaps they will learn that""And if everyone dies, no one learns anything

The basic principal of recursive design is to make the parts have the same power as the whole.

If you like who you work with, who you interact with every day, you're going to accomplish better things.

In all religions, the quickening spirit has been symbolically represented as a bird. At the baptism, when Jesus body was in the water, the Spirit of Christ descended into it as a dove.

I have always considered it despicable to grovel for your life as if life were a favor. If you cannot live the way you want, there is no point in living

If you want customers to hear about you, make something worth talking about.

The way Conway Morris goes about biting the hand that once fed him would make a shoal of piranha seem decorous.

Words of the jargon sound as if they said something higher than what they mean.