Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.
The Gospel is open to all; the most respectable sinner has no more claim on it than the worst.
It is grace at the beginning, and grace at the end. So that when you and I come to lie upon our death beds, the one thing that should comfort and help and strengthen us there is the thing that helped us in the beginning. Not what we have been, not what we have done, but the Grace of God in Jesus Christ our Lord. The Christian life starts with grace, it must continue with grace, it ends with grace. Grace wondrous grace. By the grace of God I am what I am. Yet not I, but the Grace of God which was with me.
The Christian faith is ultimately not only a matter of doctrine or understanding or of intellect, it is a condition of the heart.
The terrible, tragic fallacy of the last hundred years has been to think that all man's troubles are due to his environment, and that to change the man you have nothing to do but change his environment. That is a tragic fallacy. It overlooks the fact that it was in Paradise that man fell.
I am not asking whether you know things about Him but do you know God, are you enjoying God, is God the centre of your life, the soul of your being, the source of your greatest joy? He is meant to be.
Whenever you put happiness before righteousness, you will be doomed to misery. That is the great message of the Bible from beginning to end. They alone are truly happy who are seeking to be righteous.
So do all animals react that way to you? I know you said rats steer clear. " "Most do. They see a human, but they smell someting else. It confuses them. Canines are the worst, though. " He paused. "No, cats are the worst. I really don't like cats. " I laughed.
Censors are dead men set up to judge between life and death. For no live, sunny man would be a censor, he'd just laugh.
What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas - except the drone.
No matter how dark and gloomy it looks in your life right now, if you'll release the weight of those burdens, you will see the sun break forth.