Wisdom comes with winters
How did [the Holocaust] happen? Because God allowed it to happen. Why did it happen? Because God said, 'My top priority for the Jewish people is to get them to come back to the land of Israel. '
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.
Even if you overcome a tremendous challenge and feel the personal victory, it's simply not powerful enough. It may activate your left brain, which says, 'I have achieved,' but it will not activate your more social right brain, which desperately desires to say, 'Look, Ma, I did it!
The lessons of history teach us - if the lessons of history teach us anything - that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us.
I am still into the people I listened to growing up, so I completely remember what is like to be a fan, I haven't changed.
Train. Say your prayers. Eat your vitamins.