Jesus has not given us options to consider. He has given us commands to obey.

The primary purpose of prayer is not to get something, but to know Someone.

In our evil we rebel against God. We take the law of God, written in his Word and on our hearts, and we disobey it.

Orphans are easier to ignore before you know their names; but once you know, everything changes.

This is the reality about humanity. We are each born with an evil, God-hating heart. Genesis 8: 21 says that every inclination of man's heart is evil from childhood, and Jesus' words in Luke 11: 13 assume that we know we are evil.

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.

Everything in all creation responds in obedience to the Creator... until we get to you and me. We have the audacity to look God in the face and say, "No."