"The Spiritual Gift of saying No and Yes" (oh, and the gift of three paint sticks and a roll of duct tape and a USMC van)

The spiritual gift of Kleenex, coffee and babysitting. They aren't listed in the Bible - but they bring the Kingdom to those who need it - and allow for an amazing witness of the love of Jesus.

Luther said, "God doesn't need your good works but your neighbor does" - life is about finding out where, as Frederick Buechner said, "our deep gladness meets the world's deep hunger."

Sticking our finger down our throat to keep us from being unclean (at least that's what I understood Jesus to be saying"

God doesn't ever want you to doubt who you are! Besides being unique and unreproducible, you are eternally loved.

Joshua says we have to choose who we are going to worship. Jesus says He is the Bread of Life and only He can give us eternal life.

You are already with God in heaven (yeah, it's a time travel thing according to C.S. Lewis) - so the bravest thing you can do is keep living, keep loving, keep forgiving and keep holding on until you believe you are in heaven.

A connoisseur of churches? What does it take for you to be a member of a church (and is any of it in the Bible?)