In a contagious world,we learn to keep our distance. If we get too close to those who are suffering, we might get infected by their pain. It may not be convenient or comfortable. But only when you get close enough to catch their hurt will they be close enough to catch your love.

When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it's done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.

Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is the one thing hurried people don't have.

The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.

There are dozens of references to God in the Scriptures for every one to the figure of Satan. This reflects a sometimes forgotten theological truth that the devil is by no means God’s counterpart. He is a creature, not the Creator.

True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.

Acceptance is an act of the heart. To accept someone is to affirm to them that you think it's a very good thing they are alive.