Humility has such power. Apologies can disarm arguments. Contrition can defuse rage. Olive branches do more good than battle axes ever will.

Sentences are like just caught fish. Spunky today, stinky tomorrow.

When you teach on a familiar text, you're capitalizing on common knowledge. When you teach on an unfamiliar text, you're having to build a bridge of understanding, and we need to do that as well.

Theres some inherently unique characteristics of Christianity, the chief of which is that Christianity teaches that we are saved by what Christ has done for us, instead of we are saved by what we do for God.

Discover this mystery: as you help others face their days, you put life into your own. And life is exactly what many people need.

I just love preaching.

A story does that: it will reach out and hook somebody and hold them for just a few moments while you unpack this story in their presence.