Success is remaining faithful to the process God has laid out for you.

While generosity may be the antidote for the dizzying effects of wealth, your appetite for more may function as an antidote against God-honoring generosity. Your appetite for more stuff, status, and security has the potential to quash your efforts to be generous. And that's a problem.

What breaks my heart is in the United States hundreds of thousands wake up on a Sunday and church never crosses their mind.

Yes, God uses the uneducated to confound the wise. But that doesn't make ignorance a virtue.

There is no cramming for a test of character. It always comes as a pop quiz.

Here's something to think about: If God appeared to you and asked, "Why should I let you into heaven?" how would you answer?

What people pray for will tell you more than anything else whether they are locked into the vision and priorities of the church.