We shape our God, and then our God shapes us.

Being a pastor for 20 years I realized that the labels, agnostic, atheist, believer, everybody's human and everybody wants to know what kind of universe we're living in, and everybody's living according to a story.

It is trusting that I am loved. That I always have been. That I always will be. I don't have to do anything. I don't have to prove anything, or achieve anything, or accomplish one more thing. That, exactly as I am, I am totally accepted, forgiven, and there is nothing I could ever do to lose this acceptance.

Your job is the relentless pursuit of who God made you to be. And anything else you do is sin and you need to repent of it.

The cross is Gods way of taking away all of our accusations, excuses, and arguments.

The Bible tells a story. A story that isn’t over. A story that is still being told. A story that we have a part to play in.

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