The bible informs us, compels us to care for the poor, to love the outcast, to serve the needy.

God beckons storm clouds and they come. He tells the wind to blow and the rain to fall, and they obey immediately. He speaks to the mountains, 'You go there,' and He says to the seas, 'You stop here, and they do it. 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.

Gospel possession requires gospel proclamation.

Don't underestimate what God can do with ordinary people.

Disciple making is not a call for others to come to us to hear the gospel but a command for us to go to others to share the gospel.

Peruse the Christian marketplace, and you will find a plethora of books, songs, and paintings that depict God as a loving Father.

I could not help but think that somewhere along the way we had missed what was radical about our faith and replaced it with what is comfortable.