There is something about keeping Him divine that keeps Him distant, packaged, predictable. But don't do it. For heaven's sake, don't. Let Him be as human as He intended to be. Let Him into the mire and muck of our world. For only if we let Him in can He pull us out.

When you teach on a familiar text, you're capitalizing on common knowledge. When you teach on an unfamiliar text, you're having to build a bridge of understanding, and we need to do that as well.

For those who never pray, maybe now you will. For those of us who attempt to pray, maybe we can pray more.

Let your failures refine you, not define you.

There's a great place for good Christian children's books. After the upcoming projects I'm working on, I'd like to turn my attention back to children's books. Maybe with a granddaughter I'll have more inspiration and new ideas.

Faith is the conviction that God knows more than we do about this life and He will get us through it.

In the great orchestra we call life, you have an instrument and a song, and you owe it to God to play them both sublimely.