All preaching should be as creative as we can make it. We've been entrusted with such a treasure. To have anywhere from 50 to 5000 people who give us 30 minutes of their time to hear whatever we want to say - I think they deserve all the creativity that we can give.

The state of your heart dictates whether you harbor a grudge or give grace, seek self-pity or seek Christ, drink human misery or taste God's mercy.

Gratitude is a dialysis of sorts... it flushes the self-pity out of our systems.

Relationships don't thrive because the guilty are punished but because the innocent are merciful.

We're all travelers, all sojourners.

Jesus isn't a God who stayed on the mountaintop - he's a Savior who came down and lived and worked with the people.

I've never been one to say I know exactly that we're in the last days, but there's some things happening these days, both good and bad, that make me wonder if we may be heading into the final generation. One of the good things that's happening is that little by little we're taking the gospel to the whole world. But at the same time there is this resistance.