To depart from righteousness is to choose a life of crushing burdens, failures, and disappointments, a life caught in the toils of endless problems that are never resolved.

What we can accomplish as good as it may be does not compare to what God can accomplish

Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.

When Jesus directs us to pray, "Thy kingdom come," he does not mean we should pray for it to come into existence.

Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God's kingdom and God's cleverness

Jesus offers himself as God's doorway into the life that is truly life. Confidence in him leads us today, as in other times, to become his apprentices in eternal living. "Those who come though me will be safe," he said. "They will go in and out and find all they need. I have come into their world that they may have life, and life to the fullest.

The law of the Lord is perfect, restoring the soul.