If we are not serving Jesus, and if he is not in our thoughts and hearts, then the things of the world will draw us instead to them! Moreover, the things of the world need not be sinister in order to be diverting and consuming.

A basic cause of murmuring is that too many of us seem to expect that life will flow ever smoothly, featuring an unbroken chain of green lights with empty parking places just in front of our destinations!.

If the kingdom of God is not first, it doesn't matter what's second.

Faith in God includes Faith in God's timing.

Any assessment of where we stand in relationship to Him tells us that we do not stand at all. We kneel.

Real hope is much more than wishful musing. It stiffens, not slackens, the spiritual spine.

I know the celestial criteria measure service, not status; the use of our talents, not the relative size of our talent inventories. I know that Church membership is not passive security but continuing opportunity.