Standing near someone you love in a time of trouble is its own reward.

Corporate worship is a regular gracious reminder that it's not about you. You've been born into a life that is a celebration of another.

In the family, life is brought not only to our doorstep, but into our kitchens, bedrooms, and dens. In the family, life is happening all around us, and it begs to be questioned, evaluated, interpreted, and discussed. There is no more consistent, pregnant, dynamic forum for instruction about life than the family, because that is exactly what God designed the family to be, a learning community.

When Christ is my hope, he becomes the one thing in which I have confidence. I act on his wisdom and bank on his grace. I trust his promises and I rely on his presence. And I pursue all the good things that he has promised me simply because I trust him. So, I am not manipulating, controlling, or threatening my way through life to get what I want, because I have found what I want in Christ. He is my hope.

Corporate worship is designed to remind you that in the center of all things is a glorious and gracious King, and this king is not you

Love is willing self-sacrifice for the good of another that does not require reciprocation or that the person being loved is deserving

You cannot divide human beings into those who worship and those who don't. Everybody worships; it's just a matter of what, or whom, we serve.