In the midst of prosperity, the challenge for believers is to handle wealth in such a way that it acts as a blessing, not a curse.

To procrastinate obedience is to disobey God.

Too often we assume that God has increased our income to increase our standard of living, when his stated purpose is to increase our standard of giving. (Look again at 2 Corinthians 8:14 and 9:11).

Someday this upside-down world will be turned right side up. Nothing in all eternity will turn it back again. If we are wise, we will use our brief lives on earth positioning ourselves for the turn.

Are we truly obeying the command to love our neighbor as ourselves if we're storing up money for potential future needs when our neighbor is laboring today under actual present needs?

If we can keep ourselves from interfering with the natural laws of life, mistakes can be our child's finest teachers.

Why ask for your daily bread when you own the bakery?

A disciple does not ask, "How much can I keep?" but, "How much more can I give?" Whenever we start to get comfortable with our level of giving, it's time to raise it again.

Wealth is a relational barrier. It keeps us from having open relationships.

Unless we learn how to humbly tell each other our giving stories, our churches will not learn to give.

Whenever we have excess, giving should be our natural response. It should be the automatic decision, the obvious thing to do in light of Scripture and human need.

I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray.

To use an image, making a film is like climbing a mountain or crossing an ocean. Every day has its challenges.

Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it.

Photography has freed the plastic arts from their obsession with likeness.

Only when we are over, does our real life begin.

You hear the word, and believe it in theory, while you deny it in practice. I say to you, that 'you deceive yourselves'.

I just think there's more paparazzi, there's more cable TV, there's millions of networks now, there's more paparazzi. People liked gossip then, and they like gossip now.

It is vital for artists to nurture and protect that which will make their vision unique.

Soon, I'm going to need help crossing the street.