You don't make Him Lord. He's Lord already. You just recognize it.
Thank God for the Bible, the Word of God.
Anything you love more, fear more, serve more, or value more than God is your idol.
A church is an incubator, a nursery, a grade school. You start where people are and move them to where they need to be.
Faith believes in spite of the circumstances and acts in spite of the consequences.
Jesus did not bathe this planet with his blood to have you serve the world, the flesh, and the devil. He died to make you holy. You are not your own. First Corinthians 6:20 says 'For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.'