But I needed to prove to everyone that I was a serious musician.
Temptation gains power by persistent solicitations that beget thoughts that make evil less serious
We all profess that we are bound for heaven, immortality, and glory: but is it any evidence that we really design it if all our thoughts are consumed about the trifles of this world, which we must leave behind us, and have only occasional thoughts of things above?
As a tender and loving friend is grieved at the unkindness of his friend. . . so is it with this tender and loving Spirit, who hath chosen our hearts for a habitation to dwell in.
Sin also carries on its war by entangling the affections and drawing them into an alliance against the mind. Grace may be enthroned in the mind, but if sin controls the affections, it has seized a fort from which it will continually assault the soul. Hence, as we shall see, mortification is chiefly directed to take place upon the affections.
Fill your affections with the cross of Christ that there may be no room for sin.
Christ so loves his people that he sings with joy over them.
There were a whole lot, I bought every blues record I could find, it wasn't just one or two people. My vocal influences were Ray Charles and Bobby Blue Bland
My mind becomes tired, and perhaps some of yours do. If so, go and exercise your bodies.
You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.
Bringing up children is not a real occupation, because children come up just the same, brought or not.