This is one of the great paradoxes of suffering. Those who don't suffer much think suffering should keep people from God, while many who suffer a great deal turn to God, not from him.

Jesus tells you exactly how to get it. Put your money in missions-and in your church and the poor-and your heart will follow.

I think we need to not look at sorrow and happiness as opposites that cannot co-exist. They can and do co-exist. I have preached many memorial services where you see the sadness and the tears for those attending, and then you see how quick people are to laugh as they remember funny and happy things about their loved ones. And if the deceased knew Christ, those in attendance are able to rejoice as they anticipate the reunion that will one day come.

Messin with me, is like wearing cheese underwear down rat alley. Ollie Chandler in Deception

Countless mistakes in marriage, parenting, ministry, and other relationships are failures to balance grace and truth. Sometimes we neglect both. Often we choose one over the other.

There's a throne in each life big enough for only one. Christ may be on that throne, or money may be. But both cannot occupy it.

Give more as you make more. Remember: God prospers us not to raise our standard of living, but to raise our standard of giving.