Preparatory faith is formed by experiences in the past-by the known, which provides a basis for belief. But redemptive faith must often be exercised toward experiences in the future-the unknown, which provides an opportunity for the miraculous.
True love BLOOMS when we care more about another person than we care about ourselves.
Fatherhood is not an easy assignment, but it ranks among the most imperative ever given, in time or eternity.
Missionary work is not easy because salvation is not a cheap experience.
Believe in miracles. I have seen so many. They came when every indication would say that Hope was lost. Hope is never lost!
No one of us is less treasured or cherished of God than another. I testify that he loves each of us – insecuritie s, anxieties, self-image, and all.
Whatever your struggle, my brothers and sisters-mental or emotional or physical or otherwise-do not vote against the preciousness of life by ending it!
Only when we see that sacred, unadorned child of our devotion-the Babe of Bethlehem-will we know why the giving of gifts is so appropriate.
Dads, is it too bold to hope that our children might have some small portion of the feeling for us that the Divine Son felt for His Father?
We are infinitely more than our limitations and afflictions.
Defend your beliefs with courtesy and with compassion, but defend them.
In our time the only restraint left is self-retraint.
If you try your best to be the best parent you can be, you will have done all that a human being can do and all that God expects you to do.
Just believing, just having a molecule of faith – that simple step, when focused on the Lord Jesus Christ, has ever been and always will be not only the first principle of His Eternal Gospel but also the first step out of despair.
Don’t delay. It’s getting late.
Although I may not be my brother’s keeper, I am my brother’s brother, and ‘because I have been given much, I too must give.’
We declare that one who uses the God-given body of another without divine sanction abuses the very soul of that individual, abuses the central purpose and processes of life.
Stay the course and see the beauty of life unfold for you.
Faith draws the poison from every grief, takes the sting from every loss, and quenches the fire of every pain, and only faith can do it.
God seeks for your individual happiness above all other godly concerns.
A noble deed is a step toward God.