There is a world of difference between being friendly to someone because they're useful to you and being someone's friend.
For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.
Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.
Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done - like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.
The Bible does not say you are God’s appliance; it says you are his masterpiece. Appliances get mass-produced.