Coming unto the Lord is not a negotiation, but a surrender.
The winds of tribulation, which blow out some men's candles of commitment, only fan the fires of faith of others.
What we insistently desire, over time, is what we become.
Those few members who desert the cause are abandoning an oasis to search for water in the desert.
Eventually, there will not be enough prisons if there are not enough good homes.
Joshua didn't say choose you next year whom you will serve; he spoke of "this day," while there is still daylight and before the darkness becomes more and more normal.