Sermons are the work not of a single person, but of a Spirit-infused community that stretches to the very beginning of the Body of Christ. I give thanks for all the voices -ancient and modern - who have helped me find my own voice. Among those voices, one stands above all others- my friend of thirty years, John Leggett. For most of those thirty years, he and I shared an early Sunday morning phone call that begins with the question, "Do you have the good word?" If you find good words in this book, they are the fruit of that long friendship.