Jesus said no, this is our Father: loving, compassionate, caring, beyond our social expectations, willing to search and wait and celebrate and heal the broken. Jesus turned religion on its head, breaking down its exclusive, legalistic barriers and replacing them with welcoming relationship.

God withholds his blessing in the very areas in which we lift up false gods.

If you worship false gods, the ripples bring a little of hell to earth.

Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists.

Instead of identifying myself as a follower because I know about Jesus, I understand that I am a follower because I know Jesus.

Woe to you fans, if you would be as zealous about caring for the sick as you are about a ‘Christmas tree’ being called a ‘holiday tree,’ health insurance wouldn’t be a problem.

We expect God to be an angry father who demands justice, but through Jesus, He gives us love and grace when we don’t deserve it.

The battlefield of the gods is your heart. Your heart is shaped by your thoughts.

God is jealous for your heart, not because he is petty or insecure, but because he loves you. The reason why God has such a huge problem with idolatry is that his love for you is all-consuming. He loves you too much to share you.

When disaster comes, we can’t see anything bigger than what we’ve lost. But the truth is, God more than fills that space. We begin to see that he’s not just filling that space, but spaces we didn’t even know we had.