Celebrity seems totally at odds with authentic community and honest, real sorts of relationships.

I'm very comfortable in a room with thousands of people.

Freedom is not having everything we crave, it's being able to go without the things we crave and being OK with it.

Fear wants us to become obsessed with some event or person in the future, a year, a month, even a day. It also wants us to look backwards not at our successes, but our short-comings and our failures. Fear losses it's grip when we stay in the now.

I believe that God is with you, that there is a presence. I believe this God is for you. I don't think the universe is a cold, dead place that is indifferent.

The peace we are offered is not a peace that is free from tragedy, illness, bankruptcy, divorce, depression, or heartache. It is peace rooted in the trust that the life Jesus gives us is deeper, wider, stronger, and more enduring than whatever our current circumstances are, because all we see is not all there is and the last word about us and our struggle has not yet been spoken.

If the gospel isn't good news for everybody, then it isn't good news for anybody.