What you and I might rate as an absolute disaster, God may rate as a pimple-level problem that will pass. He views your life the way you view a movie after you've read the book. When something bad happens, you feel the air sucked out of the theater. Everyone else gasps at the crisis on the screen. Not you. Why? You've read the book. You know how the good guy gets out of the tight spot. God views your life with the same confidence. He's not only read your story...he wrote it.

I do not know when Christ is coming back. No one knows. But I do think the environment is getting more and more to the point where we can look for his return.

I was about 21 when I read that [Mere Christianity], and my faith was really being shaken during those days. Its a great, classic book.

Sometimes I wonder if we don't see Christ's love as much in the people he tolerated as in the pain he endured.

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

Feed your fears and your faith will starve. Feed your faith, and your fears will.

I think I could do better in my approach to application. I think I could do better in preaching practical sermons.