I actually think one of most profoundly and deep pastoral moments between a pastor and his church is what happens between them before God in the context of preaching.

God's grace meets us in messy places because messy places are all that there are.

A biblical understanding of the Christian life is not 'let go and let God,' it's 'trust God and get going.'

Unfulfilled dreams, ongoing relational tension, the loss of friendships, a hard marriage, rebellious teenagers, the death of loved ones, remaining sinful patterns - whatever it is for you - live long enough, lose enough, suffer enough, and the idealism of youth fades, leaving behind the reality of life in a broken world as a broken person.

There is no better story in the Old Testament, or perhaps the whole Bible, for depicting the difference between the ladder-defined life and the cross-defined life than that of the Tower of Babel.

Grace flows most refreshingly through the faucet of brokenness.

My job is not to show my children that I'm the man, but to show them that Christ is the man.