I want to live with autonomy. That's the essence of sin.

Worship is living our life individually and corporately as continuous living sacrifices to the glory of a person or thing.

...Seattle has unleashed this weird phenomenon on the world called the coffee shop. And the coffee shop, thanks to Starbucks, is the place where socially isolated, lonely, needy people gather together to ignore one another.

Tragically, we live in a day when offense to God doesn't matter nearly as much as offense to others.

Did think you were here to kill time listening to Christian music until you go to heaven? We've got work to do.

One of the most astonishing things about Jesus is that as God he actually chose to come into our fallen, sick, twisted, unjust, evil, cruel, painful world and be with us to suffer like us and for us. Meanwhile, we spend most of our time trying to figure out how to avoid the pain and evil of this world while reading dumb books about the rapture just hoping to get out.

Fathers need to be tough and tender...you be tough for your family, be tender with your family. You protect them, and you be a safe place.