Where we might think of sin as slip-ups or missteps, God views sin as a godless attitude that leads to godless action.

For those who never pray, maybe now you will. For those of us who attempt to pray, maybe we can pray more.

Sentences are like just caught fish. Spunky today, stinky tomorrow.

Every time we equip the church with a verse, chapter or a story from the Bible, we're really placing another weapon in the hands of the Holy Spirit that He uses to challenge and strengthen the church. I think that's very important.

All preaching should be as creative as we can make it. We've been entrusted with such a treasure. To have anywhere from 50 to 5000 people who give us 30 minutes of their time to hear whatever we want to say - I think they deserve all the creativity that we can give.

God is recruiting for himself a people who will populate heaven.

If we think that this life is all there is to life, then there is no interpretation of our problems, our pain, not even of our privileges. But everything changes when we open up to the possibility that God's story is really our story too.