Pause for a moment and check where your own heart and thoughts are. Are you focused on the things that matter most? How you spend your quiet time may provide a valuable clue. Where do your thoughts go when the pressure of deadlines is gone? Are your thoughts and heart focused on those short-lived fleeting things that matter only in the moment or on things that matter most?

Absolute truth is not dependent upon public opinion or popularity. Now what is this truth? It is His gospel. It is the gospel of Jesus Christ.

We can sometimes waste years of our lives waiting to be chosen. But that is a false premise. You are already chosen!

Salvation cannot be bought with the currency of obedience; it is purchased by the blood of the Son of God.

Since the beginning of time, love has been the source of both the highest bliss and the heaviest burdens. At the heart of misery from the days of Adam until today, you will find the love of wrong things. And at the heart of joy, you will find the love of good things."And the greatest of all good things is God.

It is often in the trial of adversity that we learn those most critical lessons that form our character and shape our destiny.

Of one thing we can be certain: every person we see - no matter the race, religion, political beliefs, body type, or appearance - is family.