Life's most precious gift is uncertainty.
What is the good news to the poor? Christ took your poverty at the cross and gave you the riches of Abraham. The chains of poverty have been broken at the cross.
I believe that New Orleans had a level of sin that was offensive to God, that there was to be a homosexual parade on the Monday that the Katrina came, and the promise of that parade was that it was going to reach a level of sexuality never demonstrated before in any of the other Gay Pride parades. So I believe that the judgment of God is a very real thing, and I believe that the Hurricane Katrina was, in fact, the judgment of God against the city of New Orleans.
Agnostics cannot understand Christ for the same reason a thief find a policeman -they don't want to.
How can the Jews be blamed for rejecting what was never offered?
We can create as magnificent an environment as we like, but unless we change the heart it's all a waste of time.
It was the disobedience and rebellion of the Jews, God's chosen people, to their covenantal responsibility to serve only the one true God, Jehovah, that gave rise to the opposition and persecution that they experienced beginning in Canaan and continuing to this very day.
When a manufacturing engineer is hired to create new products but insists on sharing his "wisdom" in accounting with the company controller, he is not going to last long in that company.
The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.
It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?