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" Religious programs, activities have often blurred and sidelined the centrality of the cross - causing religion to be empty of its core. "

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" I have always and will always stand on behalf of justice and do not condone oppression in any form. "

" Peace, unity, love, and nonviolence should be our rallying cry and the catalyst for change in our nation. "

" Im afraid that when it comes to the Christian life, and especially the issue of assurance, too many of us adopt the Barney Fife approach. That is, we let the enemy bully us into believing that were only safe as long as were wearing our Christian 'uniform.' "

" Our God is a great coach, and he's got a great playbook. "

" God is not asking you to be anything other than what he's made you, as long as you submit to how he has made you, to how you relate to other people who he has made different than you. "

" Churches need to be intentional about reaching the next generation by creating templates for young people to see that there is a stepping stone for leadership in this church. "

" Anyone who knows me knows that I love football. "

" When you repent and operate on God's standards, now you have restoration and reconciliation. "

" Whenever you exclude God and the value system that He represents out of the equation of a life, of a family, or a culture, you create a spiritual vacuum. Nature abhors a vacuum. It must be filled with something. "

" Many people want 'God bless America,' but they don't want 'One nation under God.' The problem is you can't have one without the other. "

" If you or the devil or anyone else could remove you from Christ's hand, then that entity would be greater than Christ, and the eternal life He gave you would not be eternal at all. That's an impossible equation. "

" The separation of church and state is a suburban, not an urban, issue. "

" God has a team. It's made up of African-American, Anglo, Hispanic, Asian, Middle Eastern, and a variety of other people and cultures. He never wants you to make your distinction, your history, or your background so precious to you that it messes up His team. "

" We need to have a unified understanding of our national heritage without losing our personal distinctives. The closer that national heritage is to the rule of God, the more ordered our relationships will become in society. "

" Righteousness has to do with the vertical standard that God gives us to please Him. Justice has to do with the horizontal expression of that righteous standard in the lives of others. "

" Prayer is the God-given communication link between Heaven and Earth, time and eternity, the finite and the infinite. "

" We should love people, care about people regardless of where they come from. "

" I condemn racism on all levels, whether personal or systemic. "

" The history of our country has been driven by a Judeo-Christian worldview, and so that has dominated the landscape. So it's important that we recognize the lordship of Jesus Christ without apology in our emphasis on prayer. "

" Black lives matter, as a subset of all lives matter. So any injustices to a particular group must be addressed specific to that group but under the banner that all life is created in the image of God. "

" Anything you can do that connects believers with one another engages the church to go the next level, which keeps the pastor from being burnt out, which therefore keeps him in the ministry. "

" Far too often, we have limited the definition of the Church. While not in all cases, in many cases, 'Church' has become an informational, inspirational weekly gathering rather than the group of people that God has ordained from Heaven to operate on his behalf on Earth in order to bring Heaven's viewpoint into history. "

" We're going to have to become very aggressive in addressing justice issues that have to do with fairness and doing that which is equitable and honoring to God. "

" We don't apologize for who we are. We do what we do as Christians. Our faith isn't hidden. There should never be a separation between God and good works. "

" As Christians, we often tend to get our Bible doctrine confused and start mixing truths that were never meant to be mixed. "

" To carry our cross is to have such a commitment and identify with Jesus Christ and what He accomplished that I am willing to suffer the repercussions to that identification. "

" Technology has changed how people communicate, how people relate, the speed at which this takes place. To ignore that, in the name of preaching the Word, is to forget that we're to preach the Word to people. "

" If the church adopts a school, and the school has kids, and the kids have parents, well, then you've reconnected the hub of a community, because you've brought together its three most fundamental institutions - church, schools, and family. "

" America was never officially a Christian nation, since neither Jesus Christ nor the Bible are mentioned in the Constitution or the Declaration of Independence. But there's no denying the influence Christianity has had on our country. "

" Government is not a human institution. It is a divine institution that humans are to run on His behalf. When they create their own rules, then they become against the creator and what He intended for government to do. "