Embedded in the larger story of redemption is a principle we must not miss: God uses ordinary people to do extraordinary things in the lives of others.

We must not offer people a system of redemption, a set of insights and principles. We offer people a Redeemer.

People struggling with life in a fallen world often want explanations when what they really need is imagination.

Foolishness is more than being stupid, that deadly combination of arrogance and ignorance.

The Bible says that our core problem, the fundamental reason we do what we do, is sin.

We forget that God's primary goal ia not changing our situations or relationships so that we can be happy, but changing us through our situations and relationships so that we will be holy.

The good news of the kingdom is not freedom from hardship, suffering, and loss. It is the news of a Redeemer who has come to scue me from myself.

An instrument s a tool that is actively used to change something, and God has called all of his people to be instruments of change in his redemptive hands

My face is rather like a collision waiting to happen: head-on I can be borne, but turn sideways, and it is all calamity.

A prayer never prayed is never answered.

It is pointless to try to make an illusion real

Nowadays, I really like playing in studios.

The more baseball the better. It is a healthful sport and develops team play and initiative, plus an independent attitude.

Once I've decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition.

Love provides the motive for obeying the commands of the law, but the law provides specific direction for exercising love.

It was never supposed to be a hit. It was supposed to be a Joe Morello drum solo.

You get to a point where it's like you can't really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.

For a long time I was trying to be poppier and younger. I didn't want to be on public radio or do any of that stuff for older people. Then I realized that that is exactly what I listen to.