In the kingdom of God, people are welcomed and wanted. Jesus demonstrated this consistently to others, and we follow him when we live it out too.

We can learn a lot about what people value by paying attention to what they fight for. The first-century Christians fought for the church to be a multi-ethnic place, and a commitment to follow their example means we should too.

A vision to transform our city (anything, really) doesn't happen with us operating in our power. It happens when we rest and rely on God, partnering with him in his work.

We all have a responsibility to build into the next generation. But surprisingly, it has less to do with them and more to do with us. You can't pass along a relationship with God that you didn't have in the first place.

Very few decisions we make in our lives carry more positive or negative impact than our sexual ones. When we utilize sex within the context that God designed for it, we can experience maximum peace and the great joy God intended sex to be for all of us.

Everyone believes it's a good practice to listen to advice from wise people around us. Yet none of us do it consistently. Wes talks about several reasons we ignore wise words and some simple indicators for the words we need to hear.

The wisest man who ever lived tells us that "the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge." We all like the idea of being wise, but truly getting there requires submission to God first.

Situations calling for courage in our lives are often a big deal to us. But they are also bigger than us. They advance the movement of the kingdom and result in spiritual, social, and societal change.

We can prepare all we want, but eventually we get to the point where we have to take the big jump, get out of our comfort zone, and follow God. It may not go the way we hope, but it will always help us grow closer to him.

Courage has a bias toward action, but often we struggle to calibrate action. We do too much, or not enough. Queen Esther gives us a model of how to wisely (and courageously) act before we take the big next step that God desires for us to engage.