Get off, you look ugly (to a blood splattered player during a game)

The resurrection never becomes a fact of experience until the risen Lord lives in the heart of the believer.

God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty.

No tabloid will ever print the startling news that the mummified body of Jesus of Nazareth has been discovered in old Jerusalem. Christians have no carefully embalmed body enclosed in a glass case to worship. Thank God, we have an empty tomb. The glorious fact that the empty tomb proclaims to us is that life for us does not stop when death comes. Death is not a wall, but a door.

In the name of Jesus Christ, who was never in a hurry, we pray, O God, that You will slow us down, for we know that we live too fast. With all of eternity before us, make us take time to live---time to get acquainted with You, time to enjoy Your blessings, and time to know each other.

The proof of how real Jesus knew hell to be is that He came to earth to save us from it.

Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with.