We're important, but not essential; valuable, but not indispensable. We have a part in the play, but we are not the main act. A song to sing, but we are not the featured voice. God is.

Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right.

I don't think God is a gender. He presents himself as a father but he comes to us with the tenderness of a mother. In some of the parables, he is the housewife who cleans the house looking for the lost coin. So I think we can miss the point if we get too concerned about the gender of God.

I do believe that leaders have to be held to a higher standard, especially Christian leaders. I put myself in that camp.

If you get a lot of good feedback from people, thats a sign that you have a strength or gift in writing, if not ... try singing.

Sentences are like just caught fish. Spunky today, stinky tomorrow.

Sometimes when you read the Bible, you find yourself asking, "How does this book know that about me? How does it know that about our world - especially when it was written so long ago?"