Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.

You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody.

At the deepest level, pride is the choice to exclude both God and other people from their rightful place in our hearts. Jesus said the essence of the spiritual life is to love God and to love people. Pride destroys our capacity to love.

Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done - like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.

Grace is the offer of God's ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped.

You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.

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