Church is what you do. Church is who you are. Church is the human outworking of the person of Jesus Christ. Let's not go to Church, let's be the Church.

The Lord's Prayer is an excellent model, but it was never intended to be a magical incantation to get God's attention. Jesus gave this prayer as a pattern to suggest the variety of elements that should be included when we pray.

He [God] wants us to talk to him as to a friend or father - authentically, reverently, personally, earnestly.

The real deal is always going to win in the end.

If you don't change your schedule, you'll be the same person you've always been.

I hate thinking about it, teaching about it, and writing about it. But the plain truth is that hell is real and real people go there for eternity.

It's a huge responsibility to have influence and to steward it in a way that leads to God-honoring leadership.