We don't believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true.

Great faith, like great strength in general, is revealed by the ease of its workings. Most of what we think we see as the struggle OF faith is really the struggle to act as IF we had faith when in fact we do not.

In accord with his original intent, the heavenly Father has in fact prepared an individualized kingdom for every person, from the outset of creation.

Blessing is the projection of good into the life of another.

There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.

Spiritual people are not those who engage in certain spiritual practices; they are those who draw their life from a conversational relationship with God.

What Paul is clearly saying is that if anyone is worthy of being saved, they will be saved. At that point many Christians get very anxious, saying that absolutely no one is worthy of being saved. The implication of that is that a person can be almost totally good, but miss the message about Jesus, and be sent to hell. What kind of a God would do that? I am not going to stand in the way of anyone whom God wants to save. I am not going to say 'he can't save them.' I am happy for God to save anyone he wants in any way he can. It is possible for someone who does not know Jesus to be saved.