You may not be down to your final heartbeat, but you may be down to your last paycheck, solution, or thimble of faith. Each sunrise seems to bring fresh reasons for fear.

I think a story is an attention grabber. I think it's a truth conveyor. Those are two great features of a good story.

Those who successfully go through tough times do so because they keep insisting.

A story does that: it will reach out and hook somebody and hold them for just a few moments while you unpack this story in their presence.

Creativity has got to be the warp and woof, the heart and soul, of our sermons.

God leads us. God will do the right thing at the right time. And what a difference that makes.

I really enjoyed reading the writings of Fredrick Buechner, I havent read anything by him in probably a decade but about 20 years ago I read four or five books of his and it helped me.