I'd like to think I'm going upriver in talking about world-view topics rather than particular political or controversial topics.

God's love has a width, length, height, and depth, but we will never reach the end of it. Our capacity to experience God's love will be exhausted long before God's capacity to give it is strained. The picture of having Christ dwell inside us by faith presents us with compelling and comforting possibilities. What Christ does in us and through us will always be 'exceedingly abundantly above all we ask or think.'

If you have a pulse, you're going to have pain.

You are the only you God made... God made you and broke the mold.

What I try to do is narrow the sermon series down to one big question. In this case the question is: What happens when grace happens? I knew I wanted to preach about grace. I just felt as if it was time for our church to be refreshed and see the beauty of God's grace - the uniqueness of the Christian grace as compared to the teachings of other world religions on forgiveness.

The next time you are called to suffer, pay attention. It may be the closest you'll ever get to God.

Every other religion is a salvation by self, Christianity is a salvation by Christ.