If you have a pulse, you're going to have pain.

God would prefer we have an occasional limp than a perpetual strut.

I struggle with trying to be a good pastor of a large church.

In our grandparents' generation news of an earthquake in Nepal would reach around the world some days later. In our parents' day the nightly news communicated the catastrophe. Now it's a matter of minutes. We've barely processed one crisis, and then we hear of another.

Kind of the bottom line for me, I don't think people come to the church where I preach to hear my view on politics.

Unmet expectations are tough when it's your wife or your husband, but it's really tough when it's God. And yet, it can be a time of growth and a time of faith, a time of understanding who God is.

All my books come out of sermons, and I'm really a pastor who writes rather than a writer who pastors.