Every human has four basic needs: acceptance, , security and purpose.

Often are an attempt to meet one of these needs, or an attempt to escape when those needs aren’t being met.

David of old went into his battle with his giant not without armor but with a of armor – the same armor with which we are to live life. (Eph. 6:13-17)

The armor of God is ! His name in Hebrew – – actually means “God saves.” (Jn. 14;6; 1 Cor. 1:30; Eph. 2:14)

The answer to wrong armor isn’t to live life without armor. The answer is to live with the armor for which we were .

What if the answer to destructive addictions isn’t just to say ?

What if the way to say is to have a greater burning inside of us? (Ps. 63:1; Mk. 8:34-35)

frees us from all other addictions. (Jn. 8:31-32)

Jesus can’t have of me, and I can’t have of Him.

Every time we take communion we’re saying, “I want of you.” “I need of you.” “I have to have of you.”

I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as manure, in order that I may . Philippians 3:8