As I see our world, I have never seen greater confusion, greater loss of meaning, greater uncertainty, and greater fear of what looms in front of us. Politics has gotten out of control everywhere. Nobody sees a mascot or a leader, and everyone wants to know what really lies ahead here.

There is a danger when we give young people only a catalog of dos and don'ts. In these young minds, the gospel is not intellectually credible.

For the Christian, worship is co-extensive with life. Life is already an expression of worship.

In a culture where the possibility of wealth and the acquisition of things is so defining of success, we end up pursuing things that, even if we are successful, can never deliver what we envisioned they would. The reason riches become such a snare is because we end up evaluating life in mercenary terms and being seen by others in such terms, and life is just not so.

Only God is able to humble us without humiliating us and to exalt us without flattering us.

Goodness can endure a few moments; holiness is life-defining.

Having the answers is not essential to living. What is essential is the sense of God's presence during dark seasons of questioning.