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

A bad sermon is like a car wreck - everyone slows down to see what happened.

God is so immense that if he were 'too visible,' people would give forced compliance without expressing their heart. So God made it possible, in enormous love, for us to live as if he were not there.

Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.

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.

Peace doesn't come from finding a lake with no storms. It comes from having Jesus in the boat.

Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality.