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

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.

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 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.

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.

In life you have always the choice to leave the shadowy places and head towards the illuminated locations!

If one considered life as a simple loan one would perhaps be less exacting.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Courage, ne'er by sorrow broken! Aid where tears of virtue flow; Faith to keep each promise spoken! Truth alike to friend and foe!

The Sonnets of Shakespeare have the fascination of an autobiography, without its clarity. It is like reading an important document in a cave by the light of matches which keep blowing out.

Without my big brother, I probably literally wouldn't be here.

I know what happiness is, for I have done good work.

When in doubt, act boldly, as if it were impossible to fail. In essence it is.

The quad toms are a completely different animal than the standard drum set/trap kit. Playing wise and stylistically, they are two different beasts.