Sometimes we ask God for help and God gives us hope, not because it's different, but because it's the same.

We spend a lot of energy remembering failures God spent a lot of love saying we could forget.

Does the church have all kinds of problems? You bet, because it's made up of people like me, so I get that part too. But all I need to know about the church is that Jesus picked her.

Every day God invites us on the same kind of adventure. It's not a trip where He sends us a rigid itinerary, He simply invites us. God asks what it is He's made us to love, what it is that captures our attention, what feeds that deep indescribable need of our souls to experience the richness of the world He made. And then, leaning over us, He whispers, "Let's go do that together.

When we love people but don't make it about us, we're exchanging currency we can use for a while for currency we can use forever.

Most of our decisions are driven by either love or fear. Figure out who's doing the talking, then decide what you'll do.

Grace means we don't need to airbrush our lives to make them look like they're working.