I don't have a problem with delegation. I love to delegate. I am either lazy enough, or busy enough, or trusting enough, or congenial enough, that the notion leaving tasks in someone else's lap doesn't just sound wise to me, it sounds attractive.

The Bible does not say you are God’s appliance; it says you are his masterpiece. Appliances get mass-produced.

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.

The greatest moment of your life is now. This moment is God's irreplaceable gift to you.

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

Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.

If ever there were a true "just as I am" church, if ever there were a community where everybody could bring all their baggage and brokenness with them without neat and tidy happy endings quite yet, if ever there was a group where everyone was loved and no one pretended - we could not make enough room inside the building.