The pulpit is no place for self-promotion. It is a great place for self-deprecation.

The presence of fear does not mean you have no faith. Fear visits everyone. But make your fear a visitor and not a resident.

Today's belief is tomorrow's behavior. If you want to be happier person tomorrow, sow seeds of happiness today.

Worry is irrelevant. It alters nothing. When was the last time you solved a problem by worrying about it?

Our kids were God's kids first... We tend to forget this fact, regarding our children as "our" children, as though we have the final say in their health and welfare. We don't. All people are God's people, including the small people who sit at our tables.

Live in such a way that you would not have to change your plans.

If we think that this life is all there is to life, then there is no interpretation of our problems, our pain, not even of our privileges. But everything changes when we open up to the possibility that God's story is really our story too.