All the decisions you makehow many of those decisions are based on you doing simply what's right in your own eyes, and how many times specifically have you gone to Scripture looking for the answer, with regard to anything?

The Lord continues to empty us in order to teach us to lay aside all self-reliance, that we may cling to Christ alone.

To the wind with what the world thinks about us. We are not to seek the approval of earth, but the honor of heaven.

Sunday morning in America is the greatest hour of idolatry in the whole week. Why? Because most people who are even worshiping God, are worshiping a God they don't know. They're worshiping a god that looks more like Santa Claus than the God of Scripture. They're worshiping a god that is a figment of their own imagination. They created a god in their own likeness and they worship the god they've made.

We have forgotten how to blush

A $50 haircut, cool glasses, skinny jeans and a tattoo does not a prophet make.

Idolatry is when you become the source of your own joy. Poverty of spirit is a wonderful thing.