Permissiveness, immorality, pornography, drugs, the power of peer pressure-all these and more-cause many to be tossed about on a sea of sin and crushed on the jagged reefs of lost opportunities, forfeited blessings, and shattered dreams.

Your mind is a cupboard and you stock the shelves.

As we follow that Man of Galilee-even the Lord Jesus Christ-our personal influence will be felt for good wherever we are, whatever our callings.

Whatever our calling, regardless of our fears or anxieties, let us pray and then go and do.

To catch the real meaning of the Spirit of Christmas, we need only drop the last syllable, and it becomes the Spirit of Christ.

No one can make us angry. It is our choice.

So much in life depends on our attitude. The way we choose to see things and respond to others makes all the difference.