God's pleasure with me is grounded in the accomplishment of Christ, not my own accomplishment.

Every idol, if you scratch it, is a mirror. We worship ourselves.

Thinking that education is something different from discipling our children is a sure sign that we have been 'educated' by the state. Education is discipleship.

He didn't love me because I'm valuable. Because He loved me, I became valuable.

To acknowledge that I am yet a sinner is not to deny that I am a saint but to acknowledge how I became one, by grace.

Because He freely owned my guilt I may freely own my sin. Guilty as charged, and yet, not guilty at all.

We do not homeschool to avoid wicked people. We homeschool so we wicked people can talk all day about the one Man who wasn’t wicked.

In abortion they are trying to destroy the last bastion of the image of God.

The true gospelstands before the throne of God declaring, 'Jesus did it all.'

The One who knows the fullness of my sin loves me as my Father right now.

In fact, the Devil is delighted when we spend our time and energy defending the Bible, as long as we do not get around to actually reading the Bible.

There's nothing better for building confidence than learning you can do something you thought you couldn't.

Every day is not perfect.

I want to be one of the best ever. It's important to me. Why can't I be? Who's faster than me? Not many. Who has the size and can move like me? Not many. Catch passes like me? Not many.

A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past.

An experience of God that costs nothing does nothing

I'm a Christian, a conservative and a Republican, in that order.

I am amiable. Vague. Puzzled. Messy-haired.

I never presumed to tell anyone who could make a rainbow what color to make children.

My biggest surprises in my everyday job have to do with the challenges of trying to be slightly more responsible as a brand.

Back in my rummy days, I would tremble and shake for hours upon arising. It was the only exercise I got.