Man's access in prayer to God opens everything and makes his impoverishment his wealth. All things are his through prayer.

Praying men are God's agents on earth, the representative of government of Heaven, set to a specific task on the earth.

In all God's plans for human redemption, He proposes that men pray. The men are to pray in every place, in the church, in the closet, in the home, on sacred days and on secular days.

The strong argument for Heaven as a place centers in and clusters about Jesus. The man Jesus, bearing a man's form, the body He wore on earth, has a place assigned Him - a high place.

I knew that the most important thing a man has is in his head, and from a young age, I often studied the head structure of each person, hoping to crack his codes. I considered a high forehead a gift from God.

The role that blood plays in Christian iconography is huge - the washing of the blood, the shedding of blood, the blood of the cross, the crucifixion, the violence of that imagery. These are horrific, and yet they are at the center of the Christian faith. There is a place where beauty and terror merge, and it's at the cross.

I know crowds of people who go to church and the synagogue who aren't religious.

After God and my family, it's surf. I don't imagine me not surfing. Surf brings me smile every day.