I think the hardest one had to do with suffering. It had to do with all of our church members and friends passing through difficult times. Sometimes it's the global climate: tsunamis, earthquakes, radiation. I think these kinds of questions are absolutely the most difficult, yet we need to be ready to respond to them because we have to be able as pastors to walk people through these valleys, these tough times in their lives.

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.

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

God never promises to remove us from our struggles. He does promise, however, to change the way we look at them.

It was a matter of going back through a lot of sermons and remembering the questions and conversations, where these ideas came from. So the book [Max on Life] is really kind of a second chance to answer these questions.

God is faithful even when his children are not.

A little rain can straighten a flower stem. A little love can change a life.