God doesn’t want to take your money. He just doesn’t want your money to take 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.

It is my judgment, therefore, that we should not make it difficult for the Gentiles who are turning to God

It's ok for people to feel bad about the wrong things they've done.

A leader is someone who has the courage to say publicly what everybody else is whispering privately. It is not his insight that sets the leader apart from the crowd. It is his courage to act and speak up when everyone else is silent....are those who would rather challenge what needs to change and pay the price than remain silent and die on the inside.

Nothing has stolen more dreams, dashed more hopes, broken up more families, and messed up more people psychologically than our propensity to disregard God's commands regarding sexual purity.

Lord, give me the wisdom to know what's right and the courage to do what's right-even when it's hard.