We pay far too much attention to externals.

Baptism was to put a line of demarcation between your past sins when you are buried with Him by Baptism-you are burying your past sins-eradicating them-putting a line in the sand saying that old man is dead and he is no longer alive any more and I rise up to walk in the newness of life.

You can wreck your future running from your past.

My father was a Methodist and my mother was a Baptist.

Comfort is the enemy of creativity.

When people walk away from you, let them go. Your destiny is never tied to anyone who leaves you, and it doesn't mean they are bad people. It just means that their part in your story is over.

I'm not particularly political. I'm not particularly denominational. I'm not worried about any of that.