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We were old sinners - but when we came to Christ we are not sinners anymore.
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People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.
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On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home.
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Sometimes what works 40 years ago doesn’t work today.
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I like sports, and I enjoy playing basketball and lifting weights.
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I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society.
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You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.
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I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate, and I’ve got a lot of that in me as well.
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Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.
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You may make some mistakes - but that doesn’t make you a sinner. You’ve got the very nature of God on the inside of you.
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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.
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I didn’t try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.
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My dad had a church of 90 people when I was born. It was just, over the years it continued to grow.
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I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate, and I’ve got a lot of that in me as well.
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I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.
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You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.
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Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.
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The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.
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Why don’t you start believing that no matter what you have or haven’t done, that your best days are still out in front of you.
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People in tough times - it doesn’t mean they don’t have a great attitude.