Chuck Quinley

If you ask people in church if they believe in heaven and believe that it's the best life possible, they’d all say yes. Now add a second question, “Would you go there right now if you could?” If I promised you that if you stood at the altar in church and prayed real loud, “OH Father, please let me die now and go to you!” you’d drop dead where you stood and enter heaven would you pray it? We are very, very attached to this physical world and to life in the body.And this keeps us from experiencing the full freedom we could know in Christ. Learn more in this week's Thread podcast, the Bible study for those in formal and informal ministry.

How to be strong is a common question among men. Sometimes in life you are in survival mode where your success relies on keeping your focus trained on the present moment and just getting through that tough time. Most of the battle is mental. We are under spiritual attack from the outside and then there's all our internal dialog inside our head.

Have you ever known of a person whose presence so changed the room that if they entered it you would turn off the television and stop talking to your friends because you would want to be completely engaged with them? In this episode of Thread the apostle Paul talks about the way that our very presence will affect other people once we draw close to Christ and become unified and aligned with his heart.

There were just too many takeaways to squeeze into the last episode. Get another 12 powerful lessons from the book of Acts for Christian leaders today. Check out this episode of Thread, the Leader's Bible Study.Play Episode

Remember Maslow's "Five Levels" theory? In the West, we pretty much live at the most difficult level of all, self actualization, "being all that I can be in life". This, of course, is impossible because there's always a little bit more that we could be or some way we could improve, so most of us remain frustrated at our lack of perfection because, actually, this is more or less a godlike realm to live in.Play Episode