Living Boldly: Embracing Faith and Courage in God

"God is a Creator and he wants to do new things all of the time, and he's not a duplicator. Every time I go, 'God, do exactly what you did last service,' you know, that's just not what he's about because it's a different group of people in this room. There's different needs, and different words may need to come out of my mouth." [00:04:35]

"We live in a world where everyone's telling you you can't pull this off. We live in a time when people, even in the church, don't believe in the power of the Holy Spirit and what he can do. Sometimes we just look at the scriptures and go, 'Well, yeah, that was back then.'" [00:06:56]

"From the beginning, when I read these stories, it's about people who say, 'No, I'm not afraid,' and all the way to the end, all the way to the Book of Revelation, where it says, you know what, those who conquer, those who make it through, those are the ones that I'm going to bring with me." [00:08:36]

"Think about these stories, though. Man, it was weird. First service, when I said, 'Why did you remember?' It was like in unison, everyone goes, 'David and Goliath.' I still remember. I always loved David and Goliath week. I mean, it seemed like every other week it was David and Goliath, but I didn't care." [00:09:12]

"Don't you remember as a kid just having this faith like God can do anything through me, and you just walked out with this courage? I was just even remembering back to when I was in high school, and I first started believing for myself, and it was real to me." [00:12:16]

"It's so rare that someone, even in church gatherings, so rare for someone to put their arm around you and remind you of how powerful you are, how powerful your God is who dwells inside of you, and what you can do. We kind of become more and more cowardly, and we'll call it responsible." [00:13:36]

"God's been right every time so far, and he says, 'Look, everyone's going to die off. These guys will die of a plague, but these two guys, because they believed in me, they're going to live, and they're the only ones that are going to walk into this promised land and the little kids.'" [00:32:39]

"Who do you resemble? Do you resemble Joshua and Caleb, or do you resemble everyone else who's looking at the problems in life, looking at God's calling for your life and things that he's asked you to do, and you just start listening to those voices telling you you can't do this?" [00:38:04]

"I want to be 85 years old and bet it all. I want to be 85 and go, 'Nothing's changed. God's still God.' I want to be Caleb, and I know there's something in a lot of you that knows exactly what I'm talking about because you've let go of things. You stopped believing." [00:41:48]

"Some of you moms, Mother's Day, you're struggling with courage. I say this because we've gone through it as parents. You start doubting yourself when you start going, 'Man, I can't be.' The frustrating thing is you can't make your kids love Jesus no matter what you do." [00:42:02]

"Some of you guys that are feeling like, 'Man, I'm not even providing, the economy and everything else, I just, I can't even focus. You're telling me to have visions of great things God's going to do. I'm just trying to stay alive.' And I'm going, 'Man, that's no way to live.'" [00:43:32]

"Some of you have heard specifically from the Lord, you know, of things that you were created for, and just because no one else does it that way, you've backed off. Isn't this book filled with people that were examples of no one else did it that way, and everyone else was against them?" [00:45:27]