Everything in the service needs to preach - architecture, lighting, songs, prayers, fellowship, the smell - it all preaches. All five senses must be engaged to experience God.

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

My desire as a Christian pastor is to see churches raised up as communities of grace ruled by Jesus and led by his gloriously masculine men who work their jobs, eat their meat, drink their beer, romance their wives, study their Bible, and raise their kids in glory and joy

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

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

Fear is vision without hope.

Stop looking for the path of least resistance and start running down the path of greatest glory to God and good to others, because that's what Jesus, the Real Man, did.