You want to make a difference in your world? Live a holy life: Be faithful to your spouse. Be the one at the office who refuses to cheat. Be the neighbor who acts neighbors. Be the employee who does the work and doesn't complain. Pay your bills. Do your part and enjoy life. Don't speak one message and live another. People are watching the way we act more than they are listening to what we say.

We might question God's actions, decisions, or declarations. But we can never, ever question his zany, stunning, unquenchable affection.

If God were only mighty, we would Salute Him. But since he is Merciful and Mighty, we can approach Him.

To see sin without grace is despair. To see grace without sin is arrogance. To see them in tandem is conversion.

What I'm urging people to do is trust in the sovereignty of God.

Reading the Bible can be like meeting someone you don't know who, oddly, somehow seems to know you deeply. It's uncanny.

Bethlehem was just the beginning. I call Jesus Christ's next appearance, Bethlehem, Act 2. No silent night this time, however. The skies will open, trumpets will blast, and a new kingdom will begin.