I've discovered most Christians don't know what to do with difficult situations because they have bought into the lie that God owes us (for our good behaviour). The reality of life is that if you live long enough you are going to bleed, cry and hurt. AND God is still God IN that.

I preach hard against that idea and plead with people to make war against sin. I tell them it's not going to be easy. Some people are meant to wrestle with their sin a long time before God brings them to freedom, but let's wrestle. Let's fight. Let's do something besides just complain.

When we join God in his plan for his global glory, we get to be a part of the cosmic take-your-kid-t o-work day.

If all you got is "I don't want to be that" then sell insurance.

The Christian views trials as a pathway to maturity.

Find the things that stir your affections for Christ and saturate your life in them. Find the things that rob you of that affection and walk away from them. That's the Christian life as easy as I can explain it for you.

If you're a beast in the pulpit but a coward in your neighborhood, something has gone wrong.