Nature is God's first missionary. Where there is no Bible there are sparkling stars. Where there are not preachers there are spring times... If a person has nothing but nature, then nature is enough to reveal something about God.

People are watching the way we act, more than they are listening to what we say.

I try to be honest; I really do try not to exaggerate the story. I try to be accurate.

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

I really enjoyed reading the writings of Fredrick Buechner, I havent read anything by him in probably a decade but about 20 years ago I read four or five books of his and it helped me.

Since our greatest need was forgiveness, God sent us a Savior. He became like us, so we could become like Him.

When we see death, we see disaster. When Jesus sees death, he sees deliverance!