I noticed people would read these short articles I was assigned to write for our church bulletin and they would say, Boy, thats good stuff. I got letters from people around the country saying, Thats really good. And I thought, Is it really?

Have you been called to go out on a limb for God? You can bet it won't be easy. Limb-climbing has never been easy. Ask Joseph. Or, better yet, ask Jesus. He knows better than anyone the cost of hanging on a tree.

Sometimes I wonder if we don't see Christ's love as much in the people he tolerated as in the pain he endured.

God does uncommon things through common people in common places.

I think that a church should be setting the pace for social justice.

We're also a multi-site church, so we have other pastors on other campuses who want to read the message before the video plays on the weekend services. So it just works better for me.

Listen carefully to the feedback your readers give you. Dont write unless people want you to write, a lot of people write just because they want to write.