Be kind to yourself. God thinks you're worth his kindness. And he's a good judge of character.

Does God care if I'm sad? Look at the tear-streaked face of Jesus as he stands near Lazarus's tomb.

When we're in the middle of a difficult time, we have to speak against that lie that says, "God is not here." We have to draw near to God.

I spent the better part of a week trying to figure out how to organize these stacks of 30 years of conversations and dialogues. I finally began clustering them in these different categories, and I ended up with the ones you listed.It's interesting to me the kinds of questions I haven't been called to wrestle with. For example, I don't know what this says, but I'm not asked a lot of political questions.

Our tendency is to be converted to church and not to Christ.

It's always better to step down from the pedestal than to be pulled off of it.

I think what happens is that we're so busy as pastors that we never get around to trying to turn that material into a book. It's a shame because there is so much good material out there that needs to be published.