Stories Are Verbal Acts Of Hospitality.

If People Don't Know Their Pastor, It's Easy To Put The Pastor On A Pedestal And Depersonalize Him Or Her. It's Also Easy For Pastors, Who Don't Know Their Congregations, Simply To Classify Congregants As Saved Or Unsaved, Involved Or Not Involved, Tithers Or Non-tithers.

The Religious Leader Is The Most Untrustworthy Of Leaders; In No Other Station Do We Have So Many Opportunities For Pride, Covetousness And Lust, And With So Many Excellent Disguises To Keep Such Ignobility From Being Found Out And Called To Account.

American Culture Is Probably The Least Christian Culture That We've Ever Had Because It Is So Materialistic And It's So Full Of Lies. The Whole Advertising World Is Just, It's Just Intertwined With Lies, Appealing To The Worst Of The Instincts We Have.

Suffering Attracts Fixers The Way Road-kills Attract Vultures.

God Made My Life Complete When I Placed All The Pieces Before Him. When I Got My Act Together, He Gave Me A Fresh Start. Now I'm Alert To God's Ways; I Don't Take God For Granted. Every Day I Review The Ways He Works; I Try Not To Miss A Trick. I Feel Put Back Together, And I'm Watching My Step. God Rewrote The Text Of My Life When I Opened The Book Of My Heart To His Eyes.