You can't change your past but you can change you destiny but deciding for Christ.

It's no secret that in New York during the last 30 years there has been a tragic exodus from the churches into materialism, secularism and humanism.

Out of defeat can come the best in human nature. As Christians face storms of adversity, they may rise with more beauty. They are like trees that grow on mountain ridges -- battered by winds, yet trees in which we find the strongest wood.

Suffering can give us opportunities to witness. The world is a gigantic hospital; nowhere is there a greater chance to see the peace and joy of the Lord than when the journey though the valley is the darkest.

God can take anything that happens to us-even bad things-and use it to shape us and make us into a better, more Christlike person-if we let Him.

Prayer is speaking to God - but sometimes He uses our times of prayerful silence to speak to us in return.

Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion - it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ.