Acceptance Is An Act Of The Heart.

Significance Is About Who We Are Before It Is About What We Do.

We Who Preach Have One Tool. We Are People Of The Book.

When I Teach The Formal Curriculum, I Have The Chance To Think About It Ahead Of Time. I Can Rehearse It. I Can Illustrate It With Self-deprecating Humor And Humble-sounding Personal Disclosure. I Can Try To Make It Comes Out Just Right.

Will You Keep Going When You Don't Know Why? When You Can't Get Any Answers That Would Make The Pain Go Away, Will You Still Say, 'my Lord,' Even Though His Ways Are Not Clear To You? Will You Keep Going-with All The Grace And Grit And Faith You Can Muster-and Live In Hope That One Day God Will Set Everything Right. Will You Trust That God Is Good? ... Ultimately, The Choice Everyone Faces Is The Choice Between Hope And Despair. Jesus Says, 'choose Hope.'

The Bible Does Not Say You Are God’s Appliance; It Says You Are His Masterpiece. Appliances Get Mass-produced.