Life minus love equals zero.
The best use of life is love. The best expression of love is time. The best time to love is now.
Life is a series of problem-solving opportunities. The problems you face will either defeat you or develop you depending on how you respond to them.
There is no growth without change, no change without fear or loss and no loss without pain.
My whole goal is just to keep myself motivated. If I’m motivated, if I’m on fire, it’s going to catch with somebody else.
I’m not looking for peace on earth, though, through a political solution. I’m a pastor.
There’s not a person on earth that God doesn’t love, but God wants us to learn to love him back.
Obviously there have been historically many different theories of the atonement and I think each of them has a part. But I think fundamentally it is the substitutionary understanding that God – Jesus took our payment and you can’t understand.
To me, God says, “I’ve given you this gift of grace, which means you don’t earn your way to heaven. You don’t work your way to heaven. You simply receive my gift.”
I don’t believe my interpretation’s inerrant. I don’t believe anybody else’s interpretation is inerrant, but I do believe the scripture is inerrant. I believe in the plenary, verbal plenary inspiration of scripture, without a doubt.
The only antidote to materialism is giving, because materialism’s all about getting. Every time I give, my heart grows bigger. Every time I give, I become more like Jesus.
The way God teaches us to live by faith is He takes away our feelings.
Nothing works perfectly. The weather doesn’t work perfectly. Because of sin in the world, nothing works perfectly. But in spite of that we can find comfort. We can find strength.
The key is really just saying my brain isn’t big enough to figure out why everything happens. It would be like an ant trying to understand the internet.
The Constitution does not guarantee freedom of worship. It guarantees freedom of religion. And this is what I call America’s first freedom.
There’s a difference between freedom of worship and freedom of religion. Worship is an event that happens inside the house of worship. Religion is a lifestyle. It is a way of living.
I don’t care whether you’re Baptist, Buddhist, Mormon, Methodist, Jewish, Muslim, or no religion at all. Jesus Christ still loves you. You still matter to God.
I believe Jesus Christ came for everybody. I don’t think he came for Christians. The Bible says take this good news to the whole world.
Christmas is the time for celebration, so I’m not against decorating, putting on lights, buying gifts. In fact, the whole reason we give gifts is the wise men gave gifts to Jesus at the first Christmas, and that started the gift-giving process.
I absolutely believe that people should show respect to everybody, regardless of their lifestyle, regardless of their beliefs, religious beliefs or any other kind of belief.