If you have lost your life, remember that He promises that you will find it.

To be a follower of the Crucified means, sooner or later, a personal encounter with the cross. And the cross always entails loss.

Failure means nothing now, only that it taught me life.

Worship is not an experience. Worship is an act, and this takes discipline. We are to worship ''in spirit and in truth.'' Never mind about the feelings. We are to worship in spite of them.

Freedom begins way back. It begins not with doing what you want but with doing what you ought - that is, with discipline.

Psychology describes. The Bible prescribes. 'Turn from evil. Let that be the medicine to keep you in health.' Pr 3:7,8.

Our future may look fearfully intimidating, yet we can look up to the Engineer of the Universe, confident that nothing escapes His attention or slips out of the control of those strong hands.