Churches provide a place of gathering for people who share common beliefs, support and encouragement for each other in faith, a place to find insight into and teaching about God's Word, and they provide a time and place where people can leave the world behind and focus only on their spiritual relationship with God.

Even when it feels as if we are being crushed by earthly troubles, we can remain joyful. If we keep our focus on God, our spirit cannot be trampled.

Even when we are frustrated by our inability to understand a circumstance or event, there are unseen angels bringing comfort and protection as directed by the wisdom of God.

Angels are spirit beings who are mentioned more than 250 times in both the Old Testament and the New Testament of the Bible.

When you are doing God's will everything seems to happen without much effort or many obstacles.

I then carefully searched through the pages until I was able to find the verse that was crystal clear... It read: "Rejoice always."

Jesus conveyed the impression of complete love, compassion, kindness, and infinite patience.