Due to our consumer mindset, people are prone to jump from church to church, which weakens the church overall.

We are not alone. Even now there are thousands of beings in heaven watching what is going on down here—a ‘great cloud of witnesses,’ the Scripture says. It reminds me that there is so much more to our existence than what we can see. What we do reverberates through the heavens and into eternity.

We are a culture that relies on technology over community, a society in which spoken and written words are cheap, easy to come by, and excessive. Our culture says anything goes; fear of God is almost unheard of. We are slow to listen, quick to speak, and quick to become angry.

Our God listens to us. Our God is a living God. He's not a block of wood you made up that's not going to answer you. My God listens to me. He answers me.

We live in a world where people say that you can believe anything you want about God.

If God cared only about religious activities, then the Pharisees would have been heroes of the faith.

The message of the Bible is not about God in Heaven who wants to take from you. It's about God who wants to give to you.