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Praise is a choice. So is bitterness.

The first step in getting well is to admit you have a problem.

Here are 52 sermons for Good Friday and Easter

I do not know what tends to occupy your life. If you are like most people, including myself, it trends toward the trivial and mundane.

Don't presume to know what only God can know.

The final tragedy is to know Jesus so well that you don't know him at all.

What costs little accomplishes little.

We have a hope that death cannot destroy

Christians have throughout the centuries—and most especially following the Protestant Reformation—arrived at very different understandings about a multitude of issues related to the teaching and practice of the Christian faith. Unfortunately, we tend to form enclaves around these doctrinal understandings, which are eventually institutionalized.

Every church longs to grow. That’s the way it should be. "The Great Commission" was not "The Small Suggestion." So what is keeping many of these churches from reaching their full potential?

Where some children grow up under the loving care of kind parents, Mez McConnell was left to tumble up on his own after his mother abandoned him, after his father took up with an abusive woman.

The worst sinners often make the best saints.

Sometimes it's easier to stay the way you are.

I have long suspected that many Christians dread not just death but heaven. We won’t admit that, of course.

Until you know who God is, you'll never know who you are.

Malcolm Gladwell claims that in 50 years, no one will remember Steve Jobs, but statues to Bill Gates will fill the Third World.

If you're going to talk the talk, you'd better walk the walk.

We are great sinners greatly forgiven called to grealty forgive others.

A recent article in Salon suggests that the idea of cyberspace will soon come an end, and I tend to agree. While there would be some loss, I believe it would be a net gain. Maybe the way to begin is simply to stop using the term.