Confidence brings joy when we let God be God.

Jesus kept it simple. The lesson wasn't complicated. 'I speak; you believe My word; your son will be fine.' We complicate what God has made simple by seeing the world through human eyes. We want to see in order to believe and presume that our limitations are His.

Today is unique! It has never occurred and it will never be repeated. At midnight it will end, quietly, suddenly, totally. Forever. But the hours between now and then are opportunities with eternal possibilities.

When a church is spending more of its budget on media than shepherding, something is out of whack. We have gotten things twisted around.

Only grace-large doses, frequently displayed, released-will restore the wounded.

It's the most exciting thing to watch God work when I've asked him about something, to listen to him and watch him work. It's like this friendship, and it just grows and grows and grows and grows.

If you never get criticized, chances are you aren't getting anything done.