I remember enjoying writing those, theres two clues of a gift: you enjoy doing it and people enjoy you doing it.

Pastoring the flock with words. I love that. We always have a prayer time in the middle of our service. We take about eight or ten minutes before I preach, after we've sung, and invite people to come forward for prayer. That's a tender moment to me. I don't preach much in that, but I like to speak to the people.

We are such a sound-bite culture; people are so accustomed to flipping through their television so quickly that we only have just a few seconds to grab someone's attention.

God's love never ceases. Never. Though we spurn him. Ignore him. Reject him. Despise him. Disobey him. He will not change. Our evil cannot diminish his love. Our goodness cannot increase it. Our faith does not earn it any more than our stupidity jeopardizes it. God doesn't love us less if we fail or more if we succeed. God's love never ceases.

Kind of the bottom line for me, I don't think people come to the church where I preach to hear my view on politics.

God wants you to know that he gets you.

When grace happens, we receive not a nice compliment from God but a new heart. Give your heart to Christ, and he returns the favor.