Many claim they want to LIVE, yet refuse to stop feeding what destroys them. Life begins the moment consumption bows to Christ.

Worship can quietly shift from being something we offer to God to something we perform for ourselves or others. Excellence is not the problem. The problem is when the experience becomes the goal — when the feeling becomes the measure of truth. When that happens, we keep the glow, but lose the weight.

In a pre-technological world, there was no shortcut to survival. If you didn’t draw water, you didn’t drink. If you didn’t gather wood, you didn’t cook. If you didn’t sow seed or grind grain, you didn’t eat.