Every obedience is not easy. This is for Jesus Christ. He deserves everything!

Don't lean on your own understanding. If your trust in God is limited by your understanding of His ways, you will always have a limited trust.

These criminals represent us. One of them recognized Jesus for who he was and received him; Jesus promised that when he died he would be in heaven with him. The other man rejected Jesus and closed his heart. Unlike the first criminal, when he died he didn't go to heaven. He went to hell. In that sense, these two men on either side of Jesus are just like every person. We either embrace Christ as our Savior and spend eternity with him, or we reject him and say, 'I don't believe it. I'll have nothing to do with.' And these people spend eternity separated from him.

While we wait, God builds our faith in His promises.

Only when we have done all we knew to do can we wait by faith for God to do what only He can do.

Fear is the contradiction of faith. Faith says, Whatever it is, it'll be okay because of God.

Let God Himself be the main attraction at church again, and let us be tireless in our insistence that church is for God, about God, through God, and to the glory of His great Son.