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

I feel as though I am trying to describe a three-dimensional experience while living in a two-dimension world. The appropriate words, descriptions, and concepts don't even exist in our current language. I have subsequently read the accounts of other people's near-death experiences and their portrayals of heaven and I am able to see the same limitations in their descriptions and vocabulary that I see in my own.

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.

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

I began to see my life and each breath I am given as a living prayer to God and a way to pray for others for our world.

They care for, protect, and guide God's people, frequently intervening or bring messages to people from God.