If we want to know the Glory of God, if we want to experience the beauty of God, and if we want to be used by the hand of God, then we must LIVE in the WORD of God.

When you come to Jesus, you don't come to get health, wealth and prosperity. You come to Jesus to get Jesus

I was immersed in comfortable Christianity. Years ago, I found myself living what seemed like the American church dream - pastoring a large church, living in a large house, and surrounded by all the comforts this world has to offer. But inside I had a sinking feeling that I was missing the point.

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.

It's important to realize that we adopt not because we are rescuers. No. We adopt because we are rescued.

Privatized faith in a resurrected Christ is practically inconceivable.

My life is a blank check before God... No strings attached.