In March 2011 I'm trying to decide on a sermon series that I will preach in January 2012. So, I'm about six months out.

Our kids were God's kids first... We tend to forget this fact, regarding our children as "our" children, as though we have the final say in their health and welfare. We don't. All people are God's people, including the small people who sit at our tables.

God sends his angels to protect us and his Word as a star to guide us. Then he surrounds us with his grace. We become his depot, the distribution point of God's gifts.

God wants the world to see what God can do with his purchased possessions. So he prunes you.

My parents, they were good, godly people, but they never said, You need to write.

If we think that this life is all there is to life, then there is no interpretation of our problems, our pain, not even of our privileges. But everything changes when we open up to the possibility that God's story is really our story too.

God is recruiting for himself a people who will populate heaven.