To start the day without prayer is to suggest the devil is feeble, God is irrelevant, and we can handle things on our own.

You can think too highly of your interpretations of Scripture, but you cannot think too highly of Scriptures interpretation of itself. You can exaggerate your authority in handling the Scriptures, but you cannot exaggerate the Scriptures authority to handle you. You can use the word of God to come to wrong conclusions, but you cannot find any wrong conclusions in the word of God.

No one can hate you in this life more than Jesus was hated.

Here's good news: God is even more committed to your change, your growth, and your transformation than you are.

God is not a magic eight ball we shake up and peer into whenever we have a decision to make. He is a good God who gives us brains, shows us the way of obedience, and invites us to take risks for him.

We may have the best of intentions in trying to discern God's will, but we should really stop putting ourselves through the misery of overspiritualizing every decision. Our misdirected piety makes following God more mysterious than it was meant to be

Why should we think that we wouldn't have a cross to carry? Are we somehow more deserving than our Lord?