Your challenge is not your challenge. Your challenge is the way you think about your challenge. Your problem is not your problem; it is the way you look at it.

Kind of the bottom line for me, I don't think people come to the church where I preach to hear my view on politics.

I do think there is great strength, though, in starting a sermon with a story, then returning to that story at the end. That puts book ends to a sermon. It is a real simple technique that communicates to the audience that there is a sense of closure, that they have a package here, or we began and we closed with this. I think that's just a nice technique.

When troubles come our way, we can be stressed and upset, or we can trust God. Caleb could have cursed God. He didn't deserve the wilderness. He had to put his dreams on hold for four decades. Still he didn't complain or grow sour.

Yesterday you can't alter, but your reaction to yesterday you can. The past you cannot change, but your response to your past you can.

A little rain can straighten a flower stem. A little love can change a life.

I think "creative preaching" is redundant.