Simple doesn't mean stupid. Thinking that it does, does.
On my own, I couldn't silence my fear, but with God's presence I could push past it.
When you believe God is who he says he is, when you hang onto him and his Word in faith, his truth sets you free. 6 The truth you store up in silence comes back to you in the storm, and it lifts you away as on a life raft from the fears and disappointments that would otherwise pull you under. When you abide in his Word, he abides in you.
We were never created to settle for mere religion. Jesus did not die so that we could have a religious belief system - but rather a life-giving relationship with our Father.
The pain of recovery is sometimes worse than the pain of the injury. Allow Jesus Christ to heal your soul.
When you care more about what others think of you than what God knows about you, you've lost perspective on what really matters.
I have realized that nothing else matters besides this: Am I doing everything God has put me on this earth to do?
Jewish Christmas' - that's what my gentile friends called Chanukah when I was growing up in Michigan in the thirties and forties. Anachronistic, yes, but they had a point. Observing the dietary laws of separating milk and meat dishes was far easier for the handful of Jewish families in our little town than getting through December without mixing the two holidays.
People were touchingly naive at the dawn of the Internet revolution when they said the Internet will route around censorship the way it routes around damage. With any revolution, the establishment catches up and figures out how to screw it up. The answer is to keep technology advancing fast enough so that those who would try to control it can't. It's up to people to defend what they care about. We shouldn't be complacent that this stuff is going to be a force for good.
I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.
Kill Japs, kill Japs, kill more Japs!