Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
If you refuse to be happy until you have no problems or challenges, you will probably never be happy!
We suffer much agony because we try to get from people what only God can give us, which is a sense of worth and value. Look to God for what you need, not to people.
Faith is having a positive attitude about what you can do and not worrying at all about what you can't do.
Peter was the only one who walked on water besides Jesus, but he was also the only one who got out of the boat. Until you make a decision to believe, and then act on it, nothing will happen.
When you focus on how wonderful God is and all the great things He's done. . . is doing. . . and even will do in your life, your natural response will be praise, adoration and awe. Don't let yourself ever get used to it. . . stay amazed!
If you look at your circumstances you will put off doing what God is telling you to do. It can seem like the worst time to do whatever God says to do. BUT there is an anointing on "now" if God has told you to act.
I believe that I am very lucky to have close friends who are faithful. From my friends, I have learned the importance of perseverance.
When I was a boy if a girl got pregnant the shame was placed on her and the boy could get away.
What John McCain didn`t realize was that Sarah Palin was his demographic. He thought he was appealing to younger women, and in fact, Sarah Palin appealed to people who were like McCain, old white guys, who thought she was sexy to skin a moose. That was a miscalculation, it didn`t work. They didn`t do the vetting, they didn`t do the polling.
When Republicans are down, in disarray, feeling blue, they turn to a tried-and-true elixir, sort of a Doctor Feelgood medicine for them. It's called tax cuts.