Throughout Jesus' ministry, He took time away from the crowds and even His disciples to pray by Himself. Jesus modeled the importance of not only serving God with our actions but of being still and drawing close to God to renew our souls.

It's time to begin righting the story of your life.

Jesus says that those who live by God's forgiveness must imitate it. A person whose only hope is that God will not hold his faults against him forfeits his right to hold others' faults against them.

When the peace of God follows the purity of God's wisdom into our hearts and lives, it will affect those around us.

Once we begin chasing approval, we never stop running. It's servitude to a thousand masters instead of one to please.

Spiritually, we have marginalized the Bible. We've trivialized marriage, and we've neutralized the church. America today is in great turmoil. It feels like the soul of our nation has been taken from us.

Every decision we make has to be evaluated in light of our life-changing commitment to being a servant of Christ and His kingdom.