I know what I'll be preaching in the spring, what I'll be preaching in the summer, and what I'll be preaching next fall.

We celebrate the First Advent to whet our appetites for the Second. We long for the next coming.

When our deepest desire is not the things of God, or a favor from God, but God Himself, we cross a threshold.

People assume when they come into a church and see a person up there speaking, 'That person must be a good person.' My challenge through the years has been believing that: 'I guess I must be a really good person.' I struggle with it. It just helps me to keep that confessional posture.

To see sin without grace is despair. To see grace without sin is arrogance. To see them in tandem is conversion.

When it comes to Christ, you've got to do the same. Call him crazy, or crown him as king. Dismiss him as a fraud, or declare him to be God. Walk away from him, or bow before him, but don't play games with him.

Relationships don't thrive because the guilty are punished but because the innocent are merciful.