What did Jesus come to do? God saves.

I picked up this book called Blue Mountain, supposed to be a really good book on the Civil War.

God loves people just the way they are, but He loves them too much to leave them that way!

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

I think you have to be very careful about any story that puffs you up.

I spent the better part of a week trying to figure out how to organize these stacks of 30 years of conversations and dialogues. I finally began clustering them in these different categories, and I ended up with the ones you listed.It's interesting to me the kinds of questions I haven't been called to wrestle with. For example, I don't know what this says, but I'm not asked a lot of political questions.

Christmas begins what Easter celebrates. The child in the cradle became the king on the cross. And because he did, there are no marks on my record. Just grace. His offer has no fine print. He didn't tell me, "Clean up before you come in." He offered, "Come in, and I'll clean you up." It's not my grip on him that matters but his grip on me. And his grip is sure. So is his presence in my life.