The voices that we allow to speak into our lives will either lead us closer to or further away from God. The story of Jeroboam and Rehoboam shows us that bad company does indeed corrupt good character

God hasn't just commanded us to love our neighbors; he commands us to love our enemies as well. An enemy is anyone you struggle to love.

Jesus showed us how to love our neighbors with his consistent presence. To love our neighbors, we must love them incarnationally.

One of the biggest commands in Scripture is to love our neighbors as we love ourselves. We cannot love our neighbors if we do not know our neighbors.

God takes our disappointments and turns them into victories when we stay focused on his mission. God's mission never fails, and his mission perseveres through every disappointment.

Churches have to constantly adapt or die. But how do we know what we can adapt? Every adaptation must aim at the mission of the church--giving Jesus to others.

The Holy Spirit makes us one unified body because we need each other. This is especially true off the map. We must adventure together.

Following Jesus is impossible when we leave ourselves options for retreat. We must burn all ships of escape that we can run back to when following Jesus gets hard.

Just as God resided in and ruled from the Holy of Holies, he desires to reside in and rule from our hearts. Spiritual transformation is a process that begins with surrender to God's rule.

We find all sorts of ways to mess stuff up while we wait on God, but God is full of mercy.