Sometimes prayer moves the hand of God, and sometimes prayer changes the heart of the person who is praying.

The church was custom built by Jesus, and we are all works in progress. We do not expect people to get their sin in order before attending church any more than a hospital expects people to get healed before they show up.

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

Who you think you are is what compels you to do what you do!

Tribes must be our homes, not our prisons.

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

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