Pentecost was the day of power of the Holy Spirit. It was the day the Christian church was born.

There are three of you. There is the person you think you are. There is the person others think you are. There is the person God knows you are and can be through Christ.

A prayerless Christian is a powerless Christian.

Be assured that there is no sin you have ever committed that the blood of Jesus Christ cannot cleanse.

The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.

The very practice of reading [the Bible] will have a purifying effect upon your mind and heart. Let nothing take the place of this daily exercise.

Confidentiality is the essence of being trusted.

In some ways, Christians are homeless. Our true home is waiting for us, prepared by the Lord Jesus Christ.

Someday your life will be over, no matter how much attention you give to your health. Will you look back with regret, because you nourished your body but starved your soul?

All around you are people whose lives are filled with trouble and sorrow, and they need your compassion and encouragement.

The way we live often speaks far louder than our words.

You are educated. Yourcertification is in yourdegree. You may think ofit as the ticket to the goodlife. Let me ask you to think of analternative. Think of it as yourticket to change the world.

When your prayers aren’t answered immediately, sometimes God has a different—or better—plan.

He knew, perhaps better than anyone, that we don't get to choose what is true. We only get to choose what we do about it.

Faith is, above all, openness; an act of trust in the unknown.

When you make a break for freedom you don't necessarily find company on the way.

People are often unhappy in the Christian life because they have thought of Christianity, and the whole message of the gospel, in inadequate terms.

I guess heaven needed a shortstop.

To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.

It makes good sense to revere the sun and the stars ... because we are their children

May we try to listen and be silent in order to make space for the beauty of God.