When someone sets out to be controversial or provocative or shocking as an end in itself, I don't think that's a noble goal.

Jesus is bigger than any one religion. He didn't come to start a new religion, and he continually disrupted whatever conventions or systems or establishments that existed in his day. He will always transcend whatever cages and labels are created to contain and name him, especially the one called "Christianity.

To be honest with you, I am passionate about all the people out there who want to know Jesus, they want to know God, and they are sick of a system that is hung up on a bunch of things that have nothing to do with the love of God.

What we believe about heaven and hell is incredibly important because it exposes what we believe about who God is and what God is like.

Many in the modern world fell for the myth that we're living in a static, fixed, flat reality of just material things.

Before anything else, you have received breath - the gift of life itself. The first word about you is GIFT.

That may sound a big vague, but what has struck me in city after city is that despite our differences and diversity, there's a common humanity we all share. In many ways we're all searching and longing for the same things.