The candles.” He asked if I’d heard of the devil’s interval, or the tritone: a combination of notes that created a brooding, menacing dissonance.
Well, let me declare once and for all that there is no sin that a Christian is not forgiven of. When you understand why God sent the Holy Spirit, you will realize that the unpardonable sin is simply to consistently reject Jesus!
Righteousness is not about right doing. Righteousness is about right believing. You are made righteous in God’s eyes when you put your faith in Christ and His sacrifice for you. It is through Jesus’ obedience that we have been made righteous and justified from all our sins. Justification is our Lord Jesus removing all the guilt and penalty of sin and proclaiming that we have been made righteous by His shed blood.
The good news is not preached to show you what is wrong with you. It is preached to show you what is right with you because of Jesus’ work at Calvary, in spite of what is wrong with you!
God sees your relationship with Him as the only thing that you need for every success in your life.
To understand the total forgiveness of sins, we have to understand the value of the person Who sacrificed Himself on the cross for us. He alone, because He was sinless, could pay for all the sins of every man. When our Lord Jesus died at Calvary, He took all of humanity’s sins with one sacrifice of Himself at the cross. He took the judgment, punishment, and condemnation for all sins upon Himself. That’s the value of the one Man, Jesus. He is an overpayment for all our sins.
Today’s Prayer Lord Jesus, thank You for loving me, for being interested in my success and for wanting to bless me in every area of my life. I cast every care on my heart into Your hands. Thank You for Your unmerited favor that gives me wisdom and strength to overcome every problem and to live victoriously today.
I believe that God wants to restore the true meaning and power of the Holy Communion to the church so that His people will rightly discern His body when they come to the Table. This will cause them to become strong and healthy, and to live long.
It was true: I was starting to hate girls. Not that I was into the machismo of being a “manly-man.” It was just that, for boys, there seemed to be more options available: there were more ways to be a boy and still be accepted, whereas the popular girls all appeared to be cut from the same cloth. Or they were clones or something.
It’s an interesting idea, but I would challenge you to decide: Do you hate girls? Or do you hate the expectations put on girls by society?
A boy can be celebrated because of his personality and talents, regardless of how he looks. In fact, talent can make a guy attractive who may not be by traditional standards. But a girl is usually only popular if she looks good.
The truth is, you are either here to enlighten or to discourage.
Any charitable act is love in motion, and love needs no publicity because love just is.
Why does Voldemort prefer Twitter to Facebook? A Because he has no friend, only followers.
Nothing in life is guaranteed. You can’t predict how many days you’ll have on this Earth, how many more sunsets you’ll be here to see. I want you to make me a promise. Always watch the sunset, baby girl.
And I lived in a dorm full of girls, all on the same damn menstrual schedule, so the fact that you’re worse than all of them combined speaks volumes about your character.
I’m thinking he might like it.” Pepper’s voice held joyous humor as she joined Tomas in clutching her hands to her chest. “Oh, baby. He more than likes it,” Tomas replied. “Judging by that python standing tall behind his fly, he loves it.” That.
I wanted to gouge my eyes out. Or better yet, stick a fork in one of the airbags she called a boob and watch her fly away.
Any and all activity that requires you to be in any state of undress will be done on your time, not mine. Because believe it or not, I don’t get paid nearly enough to have to watch you scratch your balls.
He looked at me. “You got his little hellion here?” he asked, pointing in Pepper’s direction. “Absolutely.