Superficial religion consists of merely believing certain truths and doing certain things....such superficial religion is rampant in the world today.

I could not help but think that somewhere along the way we had missed what was radical about our faith and replaced it with what is comfortable.

Do you and I believe him (Christ) enough to obey him and to follow him wherever he leads, even when the crowds in our culture - and maybe in our churches - turn the other way?...For the sake of an increasingly marginalized and relatively ineffective church in our culture, I want to risk it all. For the sake of my life, my family, and the people who surround me, I want to risk it all.

God's ultimate concern is not to get you or me from point A to point B along the quickest, easiest, smoothest, clearest route possible. Instead, his ultimate concern is that you and I would know him deeply as we trust him more completely.

Disciple making is not a call for others to come to us to hear the gospel but a command for us to go to others to share the gospel.

I couldn't really jet off to the States on a whim and a prayer.

It is impossible to be a follower of Christ while denying, disregarding, discrediting, and disbelieving the words of Christ.