The world is not looking for Stepford-type Christians. People are tired of pretense. We struggle with failures; we long for intimacy. So why are we feigning perfection before God and one another.

My brokenness is a better bridge for people than my pretend wholeness ever was.

God has promised that whatever you face, you are not alone. He knows your pain. He loves you. And He will bring you through the fire.

In these uncertain times, I know 100 percent that I can stake my life on the unshakeable, unchanging promises of God!

Some people will not understand what the love of Christ compels you to do; do it anyway.

When our dreams seem to go sour or remain unfulfilled, hopelessness can dominate our lives-or we can hold on with open hands, knowing that we have hope because God is faithful.

It takes deliberate and continuous effort to carve out time in our overfull schedules to listen to the voice of God.

The Father is truly the only Promise Maker who is in earnest a Promise Keeper. A promise from God is a promise kept.

It's my absolute passionate belief that every single human being, man, woman, or child, is aching to find a face-to-face relationship with God.

Lord God, I long to hear Your voice but not just secondhand through teachers, as wonderful and godly as they can be. I long to hear Your voice firsthand.

God talks to His people-to each one of us-through His Word, through the counsel of godly friends, and through the Holy Spirit.

Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.

In 1980 candidate Reagan asked whether we were better off than we had been 4 years earlier. In 1992 we will be asked whether we expect our children to live better than we do.

Nowadays people talk about the things he did as though they made sense. As though even his most disastrous mistakes were only the result of bad luck or hubris.

When God hears us worshipping Him, that alone makes Him feel worthwhile to be God!

At times of great stress it is especially necessary to achieve a complete freeing of the muscles

I know enough football to know that's funny!

I believe that anyone who flies in an airplane and doesn't spend most of his time looking out the window wastes his money.

I don't believe that there are aliens. I believe there are really different people.

I have to take some time to dream some new dreams. I feel like there's a treasure hunt in front of me. A treasure hunt that is speckled with and seeded by a deep-rooted wild freedom.

Programs like WIC (Women, Infants, and Children) subsidize the exclusion of dads.