Being a member of a church means realizing that we are responsible for helping the brothers and sisters around us to grow as disciples of Jesus. In the same way, they are responsible for helping us. We desperately need each other in the daily fight to follow Christ in a world that's full of sin.

We have a master who deserves radical sacrifice.

I always questioned if I was CALLED to adopt, but then I realized no child was ever CALLED to be an orphan.

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

The gospel confronts us with the hopelessness of our sinful condition. But we don't like what we see of ourselves in the gospel, so we shrink back from it.

The dangerous assumption we unknowingly accept in the American dream is that our greatest asset is our own ability.

So the challenge for us is to live in such a way that we are radically dependent on and desperate for the power that only God can provide.