I wonder if we have a lot of sons running around saying, "I want a Dad." But you won't abide in anyone.

Are you struggling with sin? You don’t need more will power. You need more of Jesus.

I think people would be surprised to discover that their challenges and struggles are not too dissimilar to us, average ordinary people. We're all looking for essentially the same thing and I think that's faith and hope and love and meaning and of course satisfaction, peace, joy.

A father doesn't say, 'Don't go that way.' He says, 'ome follow me.'

We need a bigger estimation of God and a smaller estimation of sin.

Sometimes we are outright rude when we interact with people. We meet a gay guy or a couple living together, and we think we have the obligation and right to warn them what God thinks about their sexuality on our first meeting. As if their sex life is the first thing on God's agenda.It's not.Love is. Grace is. Mercy is. Jesus is.

We need to abandon our scale and adopt God's because our misguided labels keep us from the right kind of interaction with people.