When grace happens, we receive not a nice compliment from God but a new heart. Give your heart to Christ, and he returns the favor.

But it is in storms that God does his finest work, for it is in storms that God has our keenest attention

The most powerful life is the most simple life. The most powerful life is the life that knows where it's going, that knows where the source of strength is; it is the life that stays free of clutter and happenstance and hurriedness.

In this post-modern culture in which we live - where people question absolute truth - stories are resistant to platitudes; they're resistant to me making declarations of truth to them. A story can do that in kind of a Trojan-horse fashion.

Fredrick Buechner kind of loosened up my clerical collar, you might say.

December is the most difficult month. Medications for insomnia or depression go up during the month of December. A lot of people who experience loss feel that loss magnified in December. Everybody seems happy and you feel all alone. You're not all alone.

We will find grace to help us when we need it