We often think of prayer as a means to an end. Prayer is the goal.

God has allowed hard things in your life so you can show the world that your God is great and that knowing Him brings peace and joy, even when life is hard.

Hell is the backdrop that reveals the profound and unbelievable grace of the cross. It brings to light the enormity of our sin and therefore portrays the undeserved favor of God in full color.

The church becomes irrelevant when it becomes purely a human creation. We are not all we were made to be when everything in our lives and churches can be explained apart from the work and presence of the Spirit of God.

Jesus asks for everything, but we try to give Him less.

Christ can come back at any time so the one thing you want to have in your life is a focused prayer time.

If you want to see the big stuff that God has, you've got to take some risk and trust only in the Gospel.