Love the one who wears your ring. And cherish the children who share your name. Succeed at home first.

We need to remember that the first disciples were ordinary men called to an extraordinary mission. Their devotion to Jesus outweighed- by hair- their fears and insecurities. As a result God change them and use them to accomplish some mind-boggling things. Why couldn't God - why wouldn't God do the same in your life?

I wanted to talk about how grace in and of itself changes us. It changes the way we treat other people, the way we view our lives, the way we treat our purpose and our eternal identity.

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

We preachers, people entrust us with their time week after week. I'm still stunned that people will let me talk to them for thirty minutes about anything I want to. It's a wonderful treasure that we are to steward.

Whether or not storms come, we can not choose. But where we stare during a storm, that we can.

God grants us an uncommon life to the degree we surrender our common one.