The cross is the great jewel of the Christian faith and like every great jewel it has many precious facets that are each worthy of examining for their brilliance and beauty.

If you really want to be a rebel, get a job, cut your grass, read your bible, and shut up. Because no one is doing that.

Even a cursory reading of the book of Ecclesiastes shows that culture is a stationary bike that each generation climbs on in hopes of getting somewhere only to die and fall off so that the new young stud can take his turn peddling and, like a fool, make pronouncements about his progress. We would be wise to see postmodernity as simply the new guy on the old bike and not mistake cultural change for kingdom progress.

Everything may not be OK but if God is with you, you will be OK.

Tribes must be our homes, not our prisons.

Fear in the mind causes stress in the body.

God loves you enough to receive you as you are. He loves you too much to keep you as you are.