Southside Church

"I'm not looking to limp. I'm looking to live." 

"God is building a team. That team is US - the church. The playing field is human history. the game plan is love. The win? Redemption. Lost people found and dying people finding life."  

"In your day to day, in your ordinary living, move as He calls to you." 

"Once you have it all, what will you wish you still had?" 

"I thought everyone just had days when they couldn't get out of bed. I thought everyone had suicidal thoughts from time to time. I thought everyone just figured the sun would never shine again." 

“The journey to your destiny is not an elevator: it's a really long set of stairs. Step, by step, by step.”

“The book of Acts is about a bunch of ordinary men and women who decided to make Jesus' last command their first priority.”

"When you pray to receive more of the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit receives more of you."

"If there was no such thing as Christmas, the end of myself would have been the end of the line."

"Sir, I've been waiting for you for months. God gave me a message for you."

“My husband believes in Jesus but not the Bible.”

"If you spend your life arguing for dysfunction, your prize is that you get to keep it." 

"Prayers weren't answered; help wasn't coming. She was exhausted with nothing left to give."

"Explain the concept of headship/submission as per the verse "wives submit to your husbands/husbands love your wives as Christ loved the church"

"Can we make the decision that we're going to act like these are the good old days?"

“The church does not exist for you. You and me, we are the church and we exist for this world.”

"We will always give our best because we love this city."

"The ground is level at the foot of the cross."

"One of the most incredible pieces of being created in the image of God is relationship."

"But what were we actually born to do?"

"Fundamentally, a resonator is someone who says, 'I hear you. I understand what you are trying to do. I'll help you get there.'"

"I've heard it said that this generation has no hope. And it breaks my heart." 

"You have the power and you have the choice."

"You have the power and you have the choice."

"There is a God-shaped hole in the heart of every person."

"Not my fault, not my problem."

"Life is a movie called 'Redemption' - it's Jesus' and He invites us into it."

"I'm confident that when you invite God into a moment, anything is possible."

I felt God asking me "What if that actually happened Mike? Would you still be okay?"

"Take an axe to the poisonous roots of your family tree."

"In the midst of my mess, I realized I was behaving as if I was the owner."

Where do you run when life hurts?

"The inner life trumps outside circumstances."