Along with filters on computers and a lock on affections, remember that the only real control in life is self-control.

Defend your beliefs with courtesy and with compassion, but defend them.

Brothers and sisters, one of the great consolations of this Easter season is that because Jesus walked such a long, lonely path utterly alone, we do not have to do so. His solitary journey brought great company for our little version of that path…This Easter week and always, may we stand by Jesus Christ ‘at all times and in all things, and in all places that (we) may be in, even until death,’ for surely that is how He stood by us when it was unto death and when He had to stand entirely and utterly alone.

The Church is not a monastery for the isolation of perfect people. It is more like a hospital provided for those who wish to get well.

(Phillipians 3:14) No Lots wife here. No looking back at Sodom and Gomorrah here. Paul knows it is out there in the future, up ahead wherever heaven is taking us, that we will win "the prize" of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

Somebody like you taught somebody like me.

If the bitter cup does not pass, drink it and be strong, trusting in happier days ahead.