I want to grow. I want to be better. You Grow. We all grow. We're made to grow. You either evolve or you disappear.
If 'everything happens for a reason,' then every act of evil is ultimately God's doing.
As a pastor, I have a deep desire to lead people to God and encourage people to pray, read the Bible, and carry their faith into every part of their lives.
Husband, when you tell your wife to go for counseling alone (because you think going to see a counselor is a sign you have failed) is like having a car you love overheat and deciding it's not manly to take it to the mechanic. You can keep on driving it but eventually you will ruin the engine.
God seeks to influence humanity. This is at the heart of the Christmas story. It is the story of light coming into the darkness, of a Savior to show us the way, of light overcoming the darkness, of God's work to save the world.
Jesus' own witness of sacrificial love and forgiveness, and his work to heal the sick and care for those in need, represent God's ways and vision for us.
As I've taught our congregation, within the Christian faith the question of homosexuality is not a question of biblical authority, but biblical interpretation.
Music is one of the highest art forms there is. It can define a life, change a life, or even safe a life, in just three short minutes.
Art is the way to the absolute and to the essence of human life.
I hope his wife feeds him [Clarence Thomas, Justice, U. S. Supreme Court] lots of eggs and butter and he dies early like many black men do, of heart disease. . . . He is an absolutely reprehensible person.
Nature is honest, we aren't; we embalm our dead.