What you BECOME on earth matters far more than what you DO. You're taking your character to heaven, not your career.

So when you say who does Christ die for? He died for the church, okay. I don't think God's death on the cross through Christ was a failure, if you are saying that. I do not believe that anybody he intended to die for is failing in that area.

Your spiritual family is even more important than our physical family because it will last forever.

God teaches us to love by putting some unlovely people around us.

That's the big difference between Christianity and other religions. The difference between Works and Grace or Do and Done.

Anytime you feel jealous or envious, you reject your uniqueness. It's a criticism of God's plan for you.

How does God teach me love? By putting me around unlovely people. How does God teach me joy in the middle of grief? Not happiness, which is based on happenings. How does God teach me peace? Not when I am out fishing and everything is going my way and it doesn't get better than this. But in the middle of chaos. How does God teach me patience? By putting me in His waiting room.