All I did was collect a few of the questions I've been asked through the years, write up a brief response and put them in this publication. As a pastor, you get asked questions and receive emails. Many of them I had answered, but just in conversation. So we kind of re-crafted the question and answered it. It turned out to be an interesting exercise. I hope it's encouraging for people.

Well, I think the main message is there is more to your story. There is more than what happens between the crib and the grave, and that is what I am really trying to speak to, this idea that all of life is this life and that there is nothing more than what we see and experience right here on this earth.

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

Apple trees bear apples, wheat stalks produce wheat, and forgiven people forgive people.

When our deepest desire is not the things of God, or a favor from God, but God Himself, we cross a threshold.

I picked up this book called Blue Mountain, supposed to be a really good book on the Civil War.

Immerse yourself in the curriculum of grace.