When we take our eyes off the whirl of day-to-day activity and concentrate on honoring Him and following in His way, we find a consistent peace that carries us through both plenty and poverty.

Stanley also served two one-year terms as president of the Southern Baptist Convention from 1984 to 1986. Stanley has an evangelical fundamentalistdispensationalist theology. Charles Frazier Stanley (born September 25 1932) is the senior pastor of First Baptist Church a megachurch in northern Atlanta Georgia.