Religion Is A Very Scary Thing, Because

I Get Asked, 'what Do You Miss Most About Being A Pastor?' I Think It's The Intimacy, The Incredible Gift Of Intimacy. You Go Through Death With Somebody, With Their Families, And There's An Intimacy That Comes Through That That Is Just Incomparable.

The Only Opportunity You Will Ever Have To Live By Faith Is In The Circumstances You Are Provided This Very Day: This House You Live In, This Family You Find Yourself In, This Job You Have Been Given, The Weather Conditions That Prevail At The ...moment.

Prayer Is The Disciplined Refusal To Act Before God Acts.

Suffering Attracts Fixers The Way Road-kills Attract Vultures.

Praying Puts Us At Risk Of Getting Involved In God's Conditions. Be Slow To Pray. Praying Most Often Doesn't Get Us What We Want But What God Wants, Something Quite At Variance With What We Conceive To Be In Our Best Interests.