1 Peter 3 on sharing the good news, taught through Peter himself — a witness who got some things very right and stepped in others.
How to face hard times, and the answer is prayer — whose chief secret is simply praying. Nouwen's line: turning the monologue in your head into a dialogue with God.
1 Peter 1:15-23, from a preacher who reduces the morning to two Hebrew words — Yare Yahweh, our God is awesome.
1 Kings 3:5-15. Offered anything, Solomon asks for a discerning heart to govern — and God is pleased by what he did not ask for.
Proverbs 9 on wisdom, opening the new year with the reminder that the morning is less about what the preacher says than about what God intends to do.
Proverbs 8 and wisdom calling out in the street. One point only: take the call, and be still enough in a crowded season to hear it.