If you're an aspiring athlete, could you imagine LeBron James inviting you over for a game of pickup basketball?

If you're a movie lover, what would it be like to have a standing invitation to Friday night dinners with Octavia Spencer and Millie...

You won't become fluent in a language in one day. You don't lose weight or gain noticeable muscle from one trip to the gym. You can't expect life-long trust to be built over just one cup of coffee.

You have to study the language every day...

There are few things in our world as iconic as the Mona Lisa, the Venus de Milo statue, and the Taj Mahal. If a fire, earthquake, or war were to destroy these historical treasures, the world would lose more than works of art; we would lose part of...

Just over a century ago, a trip from Chicago to Los Angeles by horse and wagon would take you five months - and that's in good weather. Today, you can make the drive in twenty-eight hours, just over a day. A direct flight will get you there in...

Maybe it was in grade school. It could have been on a roadtrip. Perhaps while waiting for your food at a restaurant. Whenever and wherever it happens, we all find ourselves staring at a Word Search puzzle from time to time.

We know what it's like...

Cookies. Babies. Swords.

What they all have in common is than none of them just...happen. They are the result of a process that takes time. And some parts of the process are more difficult than others.

There are parts of our discipleship that...

Let's play Would You Rather.

Would you rather cross the ocean in a canoe or a cargo ship?

Would you rather the cargo ship be riddled with holes or the hull be intact?

Would you rather you be at the helm of the ship or an experienced captain?

In ancient times - you know, the 1990's - most people didn't have GPS devices in their cars that audibly gave them step-by-step directions for how to get where they wanted to go. Back then, they used paper maps to find their way to new places...

Sir Edmund Hillary is known as the first person to summit Mount Everest in 1953. Lewis & Clark were the first to chart the American West. Marco Polo is responsible for traveling the Silk Road and introducing Europeans to Chinese, Indian, and...

Sam Cooke, Taylor Swift and David Bowie. What do these three have in common besides being iconic musicians?

They all understand that change is a part of life.

Sometimes change happens gradually. Sometimes change happens in an instant...