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.

But then I realize there is never going to be a day when I stand before God and He looks at me and says, 'I wish you would have kept more for yourself.' I'm confident that God will take care of me.

The Life of Christ determines everything about us.

The price of our non-discipleshi p is high for those without Christ.

We can rest confident in the fact that nothing will happen to us in this world apart from the gracious will of a sovereign God. Nothing.

Why not begin operating under the idea that God has given us excess, not so we could have more, but so we could give more?

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