I don't get asked a lot of questions about who is the best political candidate or what my position is on what the Senate is about to do.

Your goal is not to know every detail of the future. Your goal is to hold the hand of the One who does and never, ever let go.

Baptism is bowing before the Father and letting him do his work.

I co-pastor now, so I preach six months, then another guy preaches six months. So that's really why I'm preparing for January, because I'll finish in June; then I'll be writing and doing other projects for the rest of the year.

Write today's worries in sand. Chisel yesterday's victories in stone.

Who was Jesus? God saves.

He came, not as a flash of light or as an unapproachable conqueror, but as one whose first cries were heard by a peasant girl and a sleepy carpenter. God tapped humanity on its collective shoulder, "Pardon me," he said, and eternity interrupted time, divinity interrupted carnality, and heaven interrupted the earth in the form of a baby. Christianity was born in one big heavenly interruption.