Fear corrodes our confidence in God's goodness.

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.

Relationships don't thrive because the guilty are punished but because the innocent are merciful.

You long for one true friend? You have one. And because you do, you have a choice. You can... ponder the malice of your monster or the kindness of your Christ.

The Bible urges us to be respectful to all people, especially people with whom we have disagreements, to never libel people, to never label people.

The pulpit is no place for self-promotion. It is a great place for self-deprecation.

I don't have a lot of time in the sermon anyway. The sermon is only 25 minutes, which to me is frighteningly short. So I feel as if I need to get into that pretty quickly and make it as practical and accessible as possible.