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

Creativity has got to be the warp and woof, the heart and soul, of our sermons.

In the great orchestra we call life, you have an instrument and a song, and you owe it to God to play them both sublimely.

God sees us with the eyes of a Father. He sees our defects, errors and blemishes. But He also sees our value.

God did everything necessary to get Herod's attention. He sent messengers from the East and a message from the Torah. He sent wonders from the sky and words from Scripture. He sent the testimony of the heavens and the teaching of the prophets. But Herod refused to listen. He chose his puny dynasty over Christ. He died a miserable old man.

Sentences are like just caught fish. Spunky today, stinky tomorrow.

God never promises to remove us from our struggles. He does promise, however, to change the way we look at them.