One reaps what they sow, always

All of human existence can be summed in Galatians 6:7-8. 

If you spend just a little time on something, that thing will start to fester inside of you. People may deny it, but what you consume (movies and music) or fantasize about (an idea or a person) will deeply shape your character. 

Even if what you're doing is mindless, the eventual result is you'll be a mindless person. Working and talking with people without an interest in either the work or the people. Watching series on Netflix or endless entertainment on Youtube. 

There's no such thing as a standalone thought. Decisions aren't made in a vacuum. What you feed will only grow. God is not mocked, that is, you can trick yourself but you can't trick God.

And there is the (potentially hopeful) converse: what you starve will not grow. Avoiding violent and irreverent media makes one dignified. Refusing temptation and curbing bad habits simply makes one a self-controlled person.

We hear the continual refrain to set our minds in a particular way (Colossians 3:2, Titus 3:8, Philippians 4:8, Romans 12:2). There is divine wisdom here, because the war of the mind is the war for everything. 

Hospitality is defined as “love for strangers.”

Ecclesiology #14

It is through the messiness of relationships, and not in in spite of, where God works. Idols are exposed and people change.

Missiology #1

The reason God hasn't taken life from the Christian is because they are on mission. No other possibility. The implication there is that if you are not on mission now, you won't be in another field.

Want vision? It's a matter of opening one's eyes (John 4:35).

Once that's accomplished, hopefully you'll feel overwhelmed. Good. The more you know yourself to be insufficient for mission the better candidate you are for mission.

The most common command in the Bible

“Do not be afraid”