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

Spiritual formation is for everyone. Just as there is an 'outer you' that is being formed and shaped all the time, like it or not, by accident or on purpose, so there is an 'inner you.' You have a spirit. And it's constantly being shaped and tugged at: by what you hear and watch and say and read and think and experience.

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

God is a God of endless opportunities to do good; the God of the open door.

The harder you strike it, the deeper it goes.

Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.

Our beliefs are not just estimates of probabilities. They are also the instruments that guide our actions.