God will use whatever he wants to display his glory. Heavens and stars. History and nations. People and problems.

If you knew that only a few would care that you came, would you still come? If you knew that those you loved would laugh in your face, would you still care? If you knew that the tongues you made would mock you, the mouths you made would spit at you, the hands you made would crucify you, would you still make them? Christ did.

One of the things I discover a lot in marriage counseling is the husband or wife trying to get their spiritual thirst quenched by their partner; I think that's a real common mistake that we make.

To see sin without grace is despair. To see grace without sin is arrogance. To see them in tandem is conversion.

Christmas is best pondered, not with logic, but with imagination.

The Bible is full of stories of men and women who've found themselves in frightening situations but who chose to look up rather than look down - look up in faith - and God got them through it.

I think there is a time, if I can say this; there is a time in a message where you might just tell a story to give your audience a break.