Life is a school and problems are the curriculum.

How does God teach me love? By putting me around unlovely people. How does God teach me joy in the middle of grief? Not happiness, which is based on happenings. How does God teach me peace? Not when I am out fishing and everything is going my way and it doesn't get better than this. But in the middle of chaos. How does God teach me patience? By putting me in His waiting room.

What we can't do in heaven is sin and witness. And obviously God didn't leave us here to sin.

Only changed people can change the world. Start with yourself.

We are all called to fulfill God's five purposes for our lives: to worship, to fellowship, to grow like Christ, to serve, and to be on mission with God in the world.

When God is at the center of your life, you Worship, when He's not, you Worry.

Even a broken tree can bear fruit