The goal of prayer is to live all of my life and speak all of my words in the joyful awareness of the presence of God. Prayer becomes real when we grasp the reality and goodness of God's constant presence with 'the real me.' Jesus lived his everyday life in conscious awareness of his Father.

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

The harder you strike it, the deeper it goes.

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

What repeatedly enters your mind and occupies your mind, eventually shapes your mind, and will ultimately express itself in what you do and who you become.

If we do not become changed from the inside-out - if we don't morph - we will be tempted to find external methods to satisfy our need to feel that we're different from those outside the faith. If we cannot be transformed, we will settle for being informed or conformed.

Over and over in the Bible, it is fear that threatens to keep people from trusting and obeying God.