Live today as if eternity with Christ will begin today.
God is only as far as we imagine Him to be. It's our fleshly desire not to run to Him that is ultimately our downfall.
For what is faith, except a perspective on life seen through the belief that there is a purpose, there is hope, there are miracles, there is something better coming and there is a loving God.
The difference between going where you are needed and going where you are called is purely based upon diligent prayer and the leading of the Holy Spirit.
Becoming an object of worship is to serve God for what you can get from him
Do you think God truly meant for us to keep Him locked in the church? Is He our Sunday pocket watch we only pull out for weddings and funerals and church services? He wishes for us to think about Him...
God has already provided all you need to live this one day His way!
It is not trying that is ever going to bring us home. All this trying leads up to the vital moment at which you turn to God and say, 'You must do this. I can't.'
Christmas, when observed with the right spirit, still has the power to call miracles from Heaven to Earth.
God knows what you need because all you need is Jesus who is God. Matthew 6:25-34.
I didn't thank God. Doctor Carter, do you think everything happened the way it did because I forgot to thank God? Do you think that God might somehow be as petty as I am?
Happenstance is the myth of the simple mind, for it is the deliberate genius of God that what appears entirely disjointed always reveals itself to be stunningly seamless. And it is in reflecting on...
Do not be troubled by your struggles, challenges, and obstacles. Do your best each day and leave the rest for God to handle. There is absolutely no burden too heavy for Him to lift off from your...
Only God knows the unknown
I accepted that the Bible was inspired. Without that one piece, you might as well be in a library looking for answers
I have seen under the sun, vengeance is of the Lord.
There are many kinds of silences and not all signify absence or vacancy... Those moments are but temporary ebbs before the flow of meaning rushes in to fill the space... God may be speaking in ways we...
Life can be awful. Life can be ugly. And still there are those who smile at the darkness, anticipating the beauty of an eventual sunrise.
There is no shame here. The places where we still fear are simply the places we have yet to fully receive God's love. Only by his grace and in his love can we let our fear go. Let go and receive....
Whatever your problems may be, they pale in insignificance in the light of eternity. No matter how great your failures, God's grace is greater still. Lift up your heart and face life head-on.
I am so thankful for God's mercy, grace, and patience for all the times I fell into sin. I am so grateful that He never stopped chasing me no matter how far I fell.
Scripture has the remedy for sinfulness.
O God! There are many things in the Bible I do not understand . . . I am going to accept this as Thy Word - by faith! I'm going to allow faith to go beyond my intellectual questions and doubts, and I...
You can't change the past. But with God's help you can change the future. No matter what your life has been like so far, God wants to put your feet on a new path . . . a better path . . . His path.
Sometimes it is one step at a time, and things don't always work out the way we would like them to, but as you allow God to direct you He will bring you to a place of peace.
We become side-tracked if we make physical health our aim and imagine that because we are children of God we shall always be perfectly well.
The answer is that their confidence was actually in God, not in their limited understanding of what they thought he would do. They had inner assurance that God would rescue them. However, they were...
A man has to have something he can put faith in.
When there is shortage of anointing, you will begin to doubt your calling
If we give Jesus what we have, what we give Him will never be less.
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
It isn't even good grammar. What the hell does it mean when they disappear somebody?
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...