Tribes must be our homes, not our prisons.

You don't need to beat yourself up in order to make God love you. Jesus already took your beating.

Jesus and Paul were serious dudes. They had teeth missing. Jesus was a carpenter, Paul was in prison. These guys didn’t eat tofu dogs and bean sprouts. They didn’t play tennis. If there were trucks back in their times, they would have been doing driveway lube jobs on a Saturday afternoon. Same thing with King David. Yeah, he might have played a lyre, but he slaughtered thousands of guys.

Tribes must be our homes, not our prisons.

This world needs more than good works. It needs good news. Good works come out of the good news.

Because we worship our way into sin, ultimately we need to worship our way out. When Christians commit sin, they do not cease worshiping. Rather, their worship is directed away from the Creator and toward created things. Repentance is the act of turning from sin and returning to God by trusting in Jesus Christ who is the perfect worshiper.

You can't meet Jesus and not change. If you haven't changed, you haven't met the real Jesus.