Is there anything so beautiful as watching someone use their gifts in the prime of life? The answer is yes. It's watching someone in their second prime. (Luke 2:25-40)

One of the major reasons for us to cultivate our own life with God is because only God can produce in us the character we need to be the influences our kids need. Cultivating our character and soul makes us more ready to receive the gifts God gives.

God is also the God of restored relationships and fresh starts. Sometimes only when we come to the end of our dreams that God gives us his dream in a way that we can finally see it. (Matthew 1:18-25)

We must begin with the end in mind. Becoming one who truly wills above all to act with the kingdom of God in mind and to cultivate God's kind of goodness will not happen overnight. (Phil. 1:3-8; 1 Cor. 3:10-11; Eph. 5:25b-27)

God wants to transform our lives for His good purposes. If Satan can destroy the wholeness in family community, he can stall spiritual formation in the lives of individuals because we need the whole community to grow. Rom 12:9-21;1 Pet 2:9-10;Gal 5:13-26

Lack of connection is the greates human dilemma of all times. The need for connection and community is THE greatest theological truth we can know and experience. (Genesis 1-3; John 17; Rev. 21)

Your body is a sacred place. Don't squander what God paid such a high price for. Let people see God in and through your body. (1 Cor. 6:19-20; 2 Cor. 4:16)

Gail gives a full description of the relationship between the potter and the clay - how, why, and what for questions are explored. (Jeremiah 18:1-6)

5 key points to transforming your heart to be Christ-like.

What we think shapes what we feel; what we feel shapes what we do; what we think, feel, and do shapes who we become. The only hope is to find something so obviously real and attractive that I can devote all of my energies to saying “Yes!”