Because we have shut out the Holy Spirit in so many ways, we are stumbling along as though we are spiritually blindfolded.

God's justice stands forever against the sinner in utter severity. The vague and tenuous hope that God is 'too kind' to punish the ungodly has become deadly opiate for the consciences of millions. It hushes their fears and allows them to practice all pleasant forms of iniquity while death draws everyday nearer and the command to repent goes unregarded. As responsible moral beings, we dare not so trifle with our eternal future.

All great Christians have been wounded souls.

Refuse to be average.

Anything that God has declared that we should be we can be.

God’s voice speaking tenderly to our hearts today is the same voice that powerfully called creation into being.

Until we believe that we are as bad as God says we are, we can never believe that He will do for us what He says He will do. Right here is where popular religion breaks down.