What you hope for determines what you live for. What you hope for determines WHO you live for. Hope misplaced can devastate you.

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.

We all know the disappointments that come when we base anticipation on what we and other humans can deliver. God will never have a problem delivering!

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

It doesn't matter what has happened, better things are coming. God's plan produces hope in me.

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.

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