Grace is God as heart surgeon, cracking open your chest, removing your heart - poisoned as it is with pride and pain - and replacing it with his own.

Maybe you've had the experience where somebody's asked you a question and you give an answer, then later in the day you think, "Oh, I wish I'd said that!" I tend to journal these things and put the answers in sermons.

The purpose of the Bible is simply to proclaim God's plan to save His children. It asserts that man is lost and needs to be saved. And it communicates the message that Jesus is the God in the flesh sent to save His children.

God's present is his presence. His greatest gift is himself.

Don't worry about having the right words; worry more about having the right heart. It's not eloquence he seeks, just honesty.

I was never really lead by [my parents] and didnt sense any leading from the Lord to go into writing.

I see that a lot in my own life and in the lives of others.Does the presence of pain mean the absence of God?