My parents were the same in the pulpit as they were at home. I think that's where a lot of preachers' kids get off base sometimes. Because they don't see the same things at both places.
On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home.
Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.
You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.
God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us.
I've never preached one sermon on money, on just finances. I want to stay away from it.
I don't believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.
I don't mind saying, you know, that I don't take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books.
You may never get to that perfect world that you're waiting for where everything's going to be perfect and you got that much money and your house paid off.
It's amazing how people will give when you don't ask. Many of them send money because they believe in the message.
There's pros and cons of a big church. Cons is I don't get to know everybody, I don't get to go to their ballgame, I don't get to marry everybody, but the pros are you get all this community, 800 ushers come in to serve, getting there at 7 in the morning on their day off and coming in on Saturday to make all those wafers.