Don't make prayer a consistent battle, but rather constantly pray against life's battles.

Money makes a monster of a man, that makes money his master.

If we delight in God, He shall give us our hearts desires.

We need to be the church that serves and loves people now, today, exactly where they are. Until then, we are simply managing decline.

Faith is accepting that you don't know, and trusting that God does.

Most of the church landscape in my lifetime has been heavily invested in trying to do something for Jerry or Sherri or some other icon of unchurchness. The problem is that they have been only about themselves from the moment they could wail for their mothers, and the decision to give them at church what they can find in any self-help book appears now as a choice to abandon the One in whose honor the church gathers. What they need is to be set free from themselves with finality and to be lost in the awesome wonder of the manifest presence of God. It was never God’s desire that He would sit on the sideline and watch us frantically devise impressive ways to reach people or simply hold the line on orthodoxy as though faithfulness can exist in a vacuum apart from fruitfulness. God is the Matter of first importance! Can you say that about your current weekly encounter with church?