Patience is more than a virtue for long lines and slow waiters. Patience is the red carpet upon which God's grace approaches us.

We will never be cleansed until we confess we are dirty. And we will never be able to wash the feet of those who have hurt us until we allow Jesus, the one we have hurt, to wash ours.

The most powerful life is the most simple life. The most powerful life is the life that knows where it's going, that knows where the source of strength is; it is the life that stays free of clutter and happenstance and hurriedness.

The past does not have to be your prison. You have a voice in your destiny. You have a say in your life. You have a choice in the path you take.

God is always near us. Always for us. Always in us.

I work in theology and Christian books all day long, when Im studying, so its just kind of nice to pick up something different. The books that have influenced me, theres not just one book that was a watershed, although Mere Christianity was as much as any.

In the pulpit, I really feel like I'm in my sweet spot, I'm in my stride.