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

I have noticed that people tend to stop maturing when they start self-medicating. Everyone has very tough seasons of life, but by persevering through them we have an opportunity to mature and grow as people. Those who self-medicate...often thwart maturity as they escape the tough seasons of life rather than face them.

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

Fear is vision without hope.

Work like an Arminian, sleep like a Calvinist.

We need to pay attention to the questions non-Christians are asking, and the conversations that Christians are having.

Tribes must be our homes, not our prisons.