It is a lifelong choice to deliberately and habitually bring ourselves under God’s authority.

It is a lifelong choice to deliberately and habitually bring ourselves under God’s authority.

In order to plant the Gospel, we must take risk.

The secret of following God's will, I discovered, usually is wrapped up in rejecting the good for God's best.

For Noah, preaching 120 years without results meant choosing the hard road year after year. Nehemiah, building the wall of Jerusalem, faced constant harassment by enemies from within and without. We cannot honestly, authentically, reasonably and deliberately serve our Lord without our willingness to accept difficulties and inconveniences.

Why do we insist on building the largest and most impressive structures in our city when people on the other side of town are hungry, jobless and worshipping in storefronts?

We must pay a price to touch godliness through daily decision to die to self and embrace the cross.