“So far that sounds negative and even offensive to others. There is a positive side to this powerful statement that we are not our own. The positive side is that…”
“It is this closeness that caused the Apostles to preach, so that their words were actually not theirs but the word of God. It is this closeness that made Apostles influential…It’s not enough to know church doctrines. It’s not enough …
“The law of the land requires that all criminal cases must be handled by the state in secular courts. It is illegal and totally wrong for the church to handle criminal cases…”
“A free person has no Lord. A free person is a lord to himself or herself. A free person obeys no one but himself. A free person is the opposite of a slave.”
“.. You cannot repent on behalf of another person. You can’t live in sin and expect that when you die in sin without repentance, that other people will repent for you…”
“Many a good leader has survived challenges only to end up as a dictator after success. A good leader has become incorrigible after success. Success can destroy a leader because of the sense of entitlement.”
“Any last day message is good news for the righteous and bad news for the wicked. There is a last day of everything we enjoy and everything we suffer…”