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

Christ lived the life we could not live and took the punishment we could not take to offer the hope we cannot resist.

Mark it down. You will never go where God is not.

Can you imagine a life with no fear? What if faith, not fear, was your default reaction to threats?

I wanted to talk about how grace in and of itself changes us. It changes the way we treat other people, the way we view our lives, the way we treat our purpose and our eternal identity.

Which would you prefer? To be king of the mountain for a day? Or to be a child of God for eternity?

Fredrick Buechner kind of loosened up my clerical collar, you might say.