Yes, your family history has some sad chapters. But your history doesn't have to be your future. The generational garbage can stop here and now.

Our kids were God's kids first... We tend to forget this fact, regarding our children as "our" children, as though we have the final say in their health and welfare. We don't. All people are God's people, including the small people who sit at our tables.

Prayer is the hand of faith on the door knob of your heart, inviting Jesus to enter.

The Bible is the story of two gardens: Eden and Gethsemane. In the first, Adam took a fall. In the second, Jesus took a stand. In the first, God sought Adam. In the second, Jesus sought God. In Eden, Adam hid from God. In Gethsemane, Jesus emerged from the tomb. In Eden, Satan led Adam to a tree that led to his death. From Gethsemane, Jesus went to a tree that led to our life.

Vengeance fixes your attention on life's ugliest moments. Is this where you want to look? Remember: God dispenses perfect justice.

No person [should] walk out into the world to begin the day until he or she has stood beneath the cross to receive God’s love.

I don't think I have ever created an entire fiction piece or followed a historical piece and made that into a sermon.