We desperately need to explore how much of our understanding of the gospel is American and how much is biblical.

Do you realize the weight of the one who has invited us to follow him? He is worthy of more than church attendance and casual association; he is worthy of total abandonment and supreme adoration.

Disciple making also involves teaching people to obey all that Christ has commanded us. Now some might say, "Isn't that what preachers are supposed to do?" And in one sense, the answer to this question is yes. God has clearly called and gifted some people in the church to teach his Word formally. At the same time, he has commanded every follower of Jesus to teach his Word relationally.

Surely the gospel evokes unconditional surrender of all that we are and all that we have to all that He is.

The Life of Christ determines everything about us.

Satan's strategies to stop the church will ultimately serve to spread the church. And Satan's strategies to inflict earthly pain in your life will ultimately serve to increase eternal glory with your God; 'Light momentary affliction.'

Despite the obvious qualifications of all of Jesse's other sons, God appoints the unlikely David to become the king of Israel.