Anger is the noise of the soul; the unseen irritant of the heart; the relentless invader of silence.

I don't have a lot of time in the sermon anyway. The sermon is only 25 minutes, which to me is frighteningly short. So I feel as if I need to get into that pretty quickly and make it as practical and accessible as possible.

Religion is intended to facilitate hope and faith. Much like a path is intended to facilitate a journey.

I do not know when Christ is coming back. No one knows. But I do think the environment is getting more and more to the point where we can look for his return.

God loves us too much to indulge our every whim.

Every other religion is a salvation by self, Christianity is a salvation by Christ.

Truth can arrive within the story and ride latent - a bit incognito - within a story, and people are more prone to receive it.