Too many think lightly of sin, and therefore think lightly of the Savior.
If you truly have it, you never lose it; and if you lose it, you never truly had it.
Why do bad things happen to good people? That only happened once and He volunteered.
He is intangible and invisible. But His work is more powerful than the most ferocious wind. The Spirit brings order out of chaos and beauty out of ugliness. He can transform a sin-blistered man into a paragon of virtue. The Spirit changes people. The Author of life is also the Transformer of life.
The greatest weakness in the church today is that the servants of God keep looking over their shoulder for the approval of men.
God just doesn't throw a life preserver to a drowning person. He goes to the bottom of the sea, and pulls a corpse from the bottom of the sea, takes him up on the bank, breathes into him the breath of life and makes him alive.
A god who is all love, all grace, all mercy, no sovereignty, no justice, no holiness, and no wrath is an idol.
If you want to run for president, you better be an athlete. It's 247. It never ends. You give up your personal life completely and you have something of a chance to be shot.
I like developing characters who I find to have interesting psychology. Like politics and sex, but I'm really looking at bigger social problems that interest me, and that I can obsess over for a while.
Life is not a gift to be received, but rather, infinite gifts that we can give.
A natural way that an economist approaches a problem is to say, here's where I think the economy is going; this is what we need to deal with the problem.