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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.

Preacher's kids usually go one way or the other - way wild, or they follow in their dad's footsteps.

The world looks at preachers out of church to know what they mean in it.

From my youngest days, I always felt certain affinities with the idea of being a preacher.

I don't like to consider myself a normal preacher. When you look at religious people, they're the ones who hung Christ from the cross. I look at myself as a man carrying a message of hope.

I think in church you're raised like God is God and you are here.

People have really strong images of what church is, and it's almost certainly not the same as mine.

The truth is we just have a normal life, because we do have a church where our children are growing up pastor's children. And we just try to keep it really normal.

I am growing more and more aware that all too often we preachers aim at nothing and hit it.

I grew up in the church, and I feel very strongly about it.