I simply think God is greater than our weakness. In fact, I think it is our weakness that reveals how great God is.

I want a real take-home quality to the sermon, so I built the whole sermon series around the word grace, those five letters.

Love like there's no tomorrow, and if tomorrow comes, love again.

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.

Tragically, some people believe they are going to heaven when they die just because a few drops of water were sprinkled over their heads a few weeks after their birth. They have no personal faith, have never made a personal decision, and are banking on a hollow ceremony to save them. How absurd.

Conflict is inevitable but combat is optional.

The step between prudence and paranoia is short and steep. Prudence wears a seat belt. Paranoia avoids cars. Prudence washes with soap. Paranoia avoids human contact. Prudence saves for old age. Paranoia hoards even trash. Prudence prepares and plans, paranoia panics. Prudence calculates the risk and takes the plunge. Paranoia never enters the water.