A good sermon is going to disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed. It inspires you. It provokes you. It should make your soul soar.

Questions are not scary. What is scary is when people don’t have any. What is tragic is faith that has no room for them.

What we believe about heaven and hell is incredibly important because it exposes what we believe about who God is and what God is like.

Doctrine is a wonderful servant and a horrible master.

A lot of Christians have been taught a story that begins in chapter 3 of Genesis, instead of chapter 1. If your story doesn't begin in the beginning, but begins in chapter 3, then it starts with sin, and so the story becomes about dealing with the sin problem. So Jesus is seen as primarily dealing with our sins.

The life that you want begins the moment you embrace the life you have because all of it is a miracle.

Enjoy mystery and speculation, but don't drift into dogma.