"It seems God absolutely insists on loving and saving all kinds of people. That's the gospel -- and it's just as simple, and as beautiful as that." -- Dave Kepple, Sermon, "Easter in January," 1/8/2017

"Lust is a poor, weak, whimpering thing compared with that richness & energy of desire which will arise when lust has been killed.” -- C.S. Lewis

 "My spiritual gift is not caring about your feigned outrage." -- Mollie Z. Hemingway

"Alcohol (or your drug/behavior of choice) is just the tip of the iceberg. Of course, the tip of an iceberg was enough to sink the Titanic. . . . Memo to self: One day at a time." 
-- Dave Kepple

"Being a writer and being a pastor are virtually the same thing for me:  an entrance into chaos." -- Eugene Peterson

"No matter how much you have grown, God is not content for you to remain as you are; and no matter how little you have grown, He has not given up on you. He wants to liberate you more and more from any inner chains that bind you and deform you -- chains of hostility or resentment, of self-blame or regrets, of anxiety or fear, chains of inferior or superior feelings." -- Warren and Ruth Myers in 'Discovering God's Will'

"Jesus gave us a new norm of greatness. If you want to be important, wonderful. If you want to be recognized, wonderful. If you want to be great, wonderful. But recognize that he who is greatest among you shall be your servant. That’s your new definition of greatness. And this morning, the thing that I like about it, by giving that definition of greatness, it means that everybody can be great. Because everybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You don’t have to know about Plato and Aristotle to serve. You don’t have to know Einstein’s theory of relativity to serve. You don’t have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love. And you can be that servant."

 -- Martin Luther King, Jr., "Drum Major Instinct," Sermon, Atlanta, Feb. 4, 1968.