What I may intend for a story to communicate and what a story ends up communicating could be two different things. And it could be an even more positive thing.

You'll regret opening your mouth. You'll rarely regret keeping it shut.

Forgiveness is not saying that the one who hurt you was right. Forgiveness is stating that God is faithful and he will do what is right.

The temptation is for us to share our own opinions, our own thoughts and to speak from the whole realm of possibility. We can't do that as pastors. We need to have a strong voice of conviction, and the way we can do that is through Scripture.

CAN is 100 times more important than IQ

If hurts were hairs, we'd all look like grizzlies.

In our grandparents' generation news of an earthquake in Nepal would reach around the world some days later. In our parents' day the nightly news communicated the catastrophe. Now it's a matter of minutes. We've barely processed one crisis, and then we hear of another.