The problem with criticism today is that is instant, constant, global and permanent.

While this may look loving, when we struggle with an idol of dependence, we’re in fact not loving people as much as we’re using them to fulfill our need to belong, be liked, and be desired. This explains why some friends and family members can be so demanding, smothering, and needy. It also explains why we’re so easily inflated by praise and deflated by criticism. It’s as if others have the ability to determine our identity for that day based on a word or even a glance

Truthless times need timeless truths.

Idols tend to be good things that you have turned into god things, which therefore become bad things

Fear is not always a sin but it always is an opportunity.

Much of spirituality today is an effort to change God to suit us. But he's not going to become more like us, we need to become more like him.

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