When we get bumped - we spill what we are full of - Be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.

Our prayer must be, "Father, I'm waiting for You because I know You are good in what You do and in when you do it.

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.

Beware of begging God for things you don't have to have.

The core of humanity's sin problem is not a horizontal behavior to be corrected but a Vertical relationship to be restored.

Doubt is a lack of confidence or assurance that God will keep his promises. Faith is an active confidence that God's promises are always true.

I will not fail: God is always victorious.