Creativity has got to be the warp and woof, the heart and soul, of our sermons.

If you get a lot of good feedback from people, thats a sign that you have a strength or gift in writing, if not ... try singing.

I'm right now wrapping up the sermon series on grace. I'd like to figure out what this next series will be in January. To do that, I'm going to come up with four or five really good ideas - at least that I think are really good ideas - and if I don't sense God really highlighting one of those, I will go to the elders of our church and my co-pastors.

When you give a gift to one of God's children, you give a gift to God.

We need hope. There's nothing worse than to live a life of despair. For a person to have no hope just sucks the blue out of every sky.

God loves you simply because He has chosen to do so. He loves you when you don't feel lovely. He loves you when no one else loves you. Others may abandon you, divorce you, and ignore you, but God will love you always. No matter what!

Want to learn to forgive? Then consider how you've been forgiven.