Some of us have been told what we want our whole lives. We've been told we should want to go out for sports or not. We should want a college education or a graduate degree or a particular career. We should want to date this person and not the other.

You know... life can be like a big game of Battleship. The enemy knows where your ships are and is trying to call the right number and sink them. But he can't sink you if you're with God.

Instead of picking your career and backfilling your life behind that, what if you pick your life and backfill your career with whatever is left over?

On the morning of September 11, 2001, I rushed home before the kids left for school and gathered them around our dining room table and told them what had happened. Like everyone else, we struggled for words to describe to our kids why such a thing would occur.

When the kids were growing up, we didn't have a television in the house connected to a cable or an antenna. If something bad happened in the world, I wanted the kids to hear about it from me.

I literally get one hundred calls a day. I can't get anything done, but I'm happy about it.

The people that are my friends and are easy to get along with, they make me feel like I'm a boss at loving people.

If you wanna get a report card on your faith, see how you are dealing with people who are really difficult to deal with.

I have the sense that whoever here on earth we couldn't get along with, Jesus will make us roommates in Heaven.

My worst subject in school was school, but it turns out I'm great at starting them.