Talk with Me, and listen while I talk you through each challenging situation. I am not a careless God.

Martin Luther offers a powerful reminder in our temptation to go at life on our own: The world is insane. It tries to get rid of its insanity by the use of wisdom and reason; and it looks for many ways and means, for all sorts of help and advice on how to escape this distress.

It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me; it is the parts I do understand." Whoever said that may well have been thinking about Matthew 5 or even our specific passage.

You have a "turn" every time you have an opportunity to choose. But most of us only see a tiny fraction of the choices we have.

People are whupped. I'm whupped. My wife is whupped. Unless it's your job to be curious, who really has the time to sit and ask questions and explore issues?

Well, I do listen to God for direction, but I really don't have time to listen to other artists all that much.

If thou wilt receive profit, read with humility, simplicity and faith, and seek not at any time the fame of being learned.

The spiritual journey has to do with learning to think more deeply and take as long a time as we need. That's the path to wisdom.

Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.

It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand.

His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the whole idea at once.

One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning.