I'm right now wrapping up the sermon series on grace. I'd like to figure out what this next series will be in January. To do that, I'm going to come up with four or five really good ideas - at least that I think are really good ideas - and if I don't sense God really highlighting one of those, I will go to the elders of our church and my co-pastors.

See your enemies, not as God's failures, but as God's projects.

We are presumptuous not when we marvel at His grace, but when we reject it.

God has a timeline. And because of Bethlehem, we have an idea where we stand on it.

A Christian in his surroundings should encourage everyone to be better, instead of being the one who stoops to be like everyone else.

Our prayers may be awkward. Our attempts may be feeble. But since the power of prayer is in the One who hears it and not in the one who says it, our prayers do make a difference.

Lower your expectations of earth. This isn't heaven, so don't expect it to be.