What is of man uses manipulation to conform. What is of #God uses implantation to transform.

Until the Bible begins to talk to us, we really have not been reading it.

But the sons of this world have not God; they have only each other, and they walk holding to each other and looking to one another for assurance like frightened children.

Christ calls us to carry the Cross; churches call us to have fun in His name.

Refuse to be average.

God doesn't work through us because we're flawless; rather, He works through us in spite of our imperfections.

When Jesus died on the cross the mercy of God did not become any greater. It could not become any greater, for it was already infinite. We get the odd notion that God is showing mercy because Jesus died. No--Jesus died because God is showing mercy. It was the mercy of God that gave us Calvary, not Calvary that gave us mercy. If God had not been merciful there would have been no incarnation, no babe in the manger, no man on a cross and no open tomb.