The Wake-Up Call

We want Jesus to help us more than we want Jesus to have us.

Some of the sickest, most disabled, most devastatingly handicapped people I have ever known are some of the deepest wells of living water I have ever seen.

In the eyes of God, there are no deplorables, only wayward sons and daughters.

Why do we choose to be admired at the expense of being known?

What about your own notion of abundance must diminish in order for you to begin to grasp the abundance Jesus offers?

God is Jesus.

He has come to walk us home.

The Bible is clear: God never intended his people to have a king. He would be their King.

Jesus didn't run away from pain. He ran into peace.

But the minute money becomes about God through faith we are practically delivered from the idolatry of money into the mind-blowing economy of Jesus.

We threw the only Son of God out of his own vineyard and we killed him. And guess what? He's given us a second chance.

Be careful how you read because it will determine how you lead and, yes, how you seed.

Therefore, always pray and do not lose heart.

It is not a matter of how much or how little faith one has. It is where one's faith is anchored.

Jesus taught us the one who serves God becomes a transformed steward of everything, and the one who serves money is a self-deceived steward of nothing.

We think we are sinners because we sin. We don't understand that we sin because we are sinners.

The issue is not too much to do and not enough time. The issue is priority.

That's the kingdom of God—the very vibe of heaven. And it starts with the smallest seed.

Thank you for calling us to surface the hidden things in our lives that threaten to undo us.

We are waging the war of the love of Almighty God. This is the travail of love.

How you read will determine how you lead.

To take up our cross is to give oneself unconditionally and unreservedly to Jesus.

When they came to Jesus, they found the man from whom the demons had gone out, sitting at Jesus’ feet, dressed and in his right mind; and they were afraid.

Jesus was all about the holiness of love for people as the power and purpose of God—recovering the glory of God.

So how do you want to be treated?

Thank you for being ever ready to pull back up to the shoreline of our lives and let us get on board.

This is the whole point of Jesus: to show us what it looks like when the Holy Spirit has complete domain in a humble human being.

The Word of God only comes to sons and daughters and we are—every single one of us—long before and well after we are ever anything else—a beloved son or a blessed daughter.

Caesar was playing checkers; God was playing chess.

Faith is having the audacity to risk everything on what you know to be the truth—the Word of God.

This is where God meets us. He meets us on the day after our faith dies.

We mostly entrust ourselves to ourselves, and that's our biggest problem.

The celebration of the Lord's Supper is not about approaching with the right thoughts and feelings. It's all about embracing Jesus himself.

To be attentive is to live completely, wholeheartedly, and joyfully alive to the Father, abiding in the life of Jesus through the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Only the true and living God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ is worthy of our worship.

Is my life bearing fruit or is it mostly a lot of leaves?

The law is meant to train us to love in such a way that the law is no longer needed because it has become written on our hearts.

Jesus waits for a generation who will not be content to live out their lives in the lazy place between belief and unbelief

But more than help for our particular situations, we need the reign and rule of the God of heaven and earth to be completely reinstated everywhere.

Lead us deeper into the overwhelming astonishment of an ever-deepening awakening to the person of Jesus.

The kingdom of God is not about the efficiency of labor but the extravagance of holy love.

Don’t be afraid; only believe.

The kingdom is not meant to be hidden but revealed, yet it takes a certain kind of seeing to perceive it.

And while Jesus will always go where he is needed, I think it is safe to say he most wants to go where he's most wanted.

We know nothing about the faith of the paralyzed man. This is a story about the faith and love of his friends.

The time is fulfilled: now. The kingdom of God is at hand: here.

In his resurrection from the dead, Jesus defeated the curse of death and destroyed the power of sin.

What if the outcome of my sin actually carries the real effect of directly and particularly assaulting Jesus Christ, the God of heaven and earth?

The gospel is an unreasonable, unfathomable, incomprehensible, and inappropriate display and demonstration of the affection of God for sinners.

The kind of kingdom-venturing risk-taking that matters the most involves showing mercy to those most in need of mercy and doing so in a self-forgetful way.