Who are they to give stars or dots? They're Wemmicks just like you." Eli to Punchinello (p. 25)

I want a real take-home quality to the sermon, so I built the whole sermon series around the word grace, those five letters.

Fredrick Buechner kind of loosened me up, hes got a little irreverency to him and I have a little too much reverancy.

Whether or not storms come, we can not choose. But where we stare during a storm, that we can.

I certainly don't mean to leave the impression that anxiety can be waved away with a simple pep talk. In fact, for some, God's healing will include the help of therapy and/or medication. If that's the case, do not for a moment think that you're a second-class citizen of heaven. Ask God to lead you to a qualified counselor or physician who'll provide the treatment you need. This much is sure: It's not God's will that you lead a life of perpetual anxiety. It's not his will that you face every day with dread and trepidation.

No psychological grid works, because if you try to place every personality in one particular grid then you'd need about 4 billion grids because we are all so unique.

When you keep the porch light on for the prodigal child, you do what God does every single moment.