We don't really know ourselves as well as we think we do. But when we are willing to pray honest prayers, God reveals to us the reality of our heats and he invites us to follow him into a new reality. It all starts when we begin to pray, "search me, God."

Everyone wants to be comfortable, but when we turn comfort into a neon god, it destroys our relationships, distorts the Gospel and kills our spiritual life. The only way to kill the idol of comfort is to embrace the cross of Jesus.

Money - or at least the love of money - is a sneaky idol that's hard to identify and harder to kill in our lives. But when we take the Gospel of Jesus at face value, greed dies and we are set free.

For members of the Kingdom, Heaven is more than just a place we go to when we die. Heaven is a kingdom Jesus is establishing and inviting us into right now.

Be Jesus to the world around you.