Who we are is not a question we can ask without seeking to understand the context in which we live. Biblical counselors seek to understand the influences that shape the responses of the human heart.

A rebellion against God, even as believers, is fueled by the toxic fumes of unbelief.

You can't teach a person to love something. But you can get him to feel the heat of your love for something.

The counselee should be aware that you are not God. Better yet, she should be aware that you are aware that you are not God.

While the United States is becoming the most culturally diverse nation in the world, less than 5.5% of Christian congregations are multiethnic.

A continual diet of the Word satisfies, and it builds an appetite for more.

God's Word is especially suited to directing those who want to focus primarily on the nature and direction of their own hearts.

Our hearts are wired for worship, and our worship is directly tied to our sense of hope.

This is God's world, so everything, even if it intends to efface God, bears witness to God – understood and interpreted through biblical eyeglasses.

The role of biblical counselors is facilitate the discovery of a greater God awareness through spiritual eyes that look at life through scriptural lenses.

Spending too much time in one's individual silo can produce pride, isolation, and a stagnated ministry.

Legislating morality grows big government immensely, and helps fashion the noose the government will use to ultimately hang you by.

Of course real horror does not depend upon the melodrama of shadows or even the conspiracies of night.

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!

Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.

I have this theory that the likeability question comes up so much more with female characters created by female authors than it does with male characters and male authors

Someone else's action should not determine your response.

...No opening sermons concerning children with humps and fins for limbs, who nonetheless, immortal souls all, deserve life, liberty, and the pursuit of Happy Meals.

It's never too early to care about fashion.

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable . . .

I want to be loved despite my faults. It isn't exactly true that I'm a provocateur. A real provocateur is someone who says things he doesn't think, just to shock. I try to say what I think.