No person is so grand or wise or perfect as to be the master of another person. Teacher, perhaps. Setter of good example, perhaps. Genius, perhaps. But master, no.
Apostasy must be called what it is, spiritual adultery.
Art is a reflection of God's creativity, an evidence that we are made in the image of God.
When my conscience under the Holy Spirit makes me aware of a specific sin I should at once call that sin sin and bring it consciously under the blood of Christ. Now it is covered and it is not honoring to the finished work of Jesus Christ to worry about it, as far as my relationship to God is concerned. Indeed, to worry about it is to do spite to the infinite value of the death of the Son of God. My fellowship with God is restored.
Christianity is not just involved with "salvation", but with the total man in the total world. The Christian message begins with the existence of God forever, and then with creation. It does not begin with salvation. We must be thankful for salvation, but the Christian message is more than that. Man has a value because he is made in the image of God.
With the Fall all became abnormal. It is not just that the individual is separated from God by his true moral guilt, but each of us is not what God made us to be. Beyond each of us as individuals, human relationships are not what God meant them to be. And beyond that, nature is abnormal - the whole cause-and-effect significant history is now abnormal. To say it another way: there is much in history now which should not be.
Today the separation of church and state is America is used to silence the church. . . The way the concept is used today is totally reversed from the original intent. . . It is used today as a false political dictum in order to restrict the influence of Christian ideas. . . To have suggested the state separated from religion and religious influence would have amazed the Founding Fathers.
When I was a child, my December weekends were spent making cards, decorating the tree, hanging the wreath and preparing brandy butter and peppermint creams.
An aphorism is a generalization of sorts, and our present-day writers seem more at home with the particular.
I really wanted to do things that weren't comic. It felt like finding people who can see this other side to me.
When a girl feels that she’s perfectly groomed and dressed she can forget that part of her. That’s charm