Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.

Clinical depression is an extreme form of a 'bad mood.'

A leader enables people to love and honor the role they play in the organization or group they are part of

The Spiritual disciplines are wisdom and not righteousness.

You can no more trust Jesus and not intend to obey him than you could trust your doctor and your auto mechanic and not intend to follow their advice. If you don't intend to follow their advice, you simply don't trust them. Period.

There is absolutely nothing in what Jesus himself or his early followers taught that suggests you can decide just to enjoy forgiveness at Jesus' expense and have nothing more to do with him.

A disciple is a person who has decided that the most important thing in their life is to learn how to do what Jesus said to do.