What our Lord said about cross-bearing and obedience is not in fine type. It is in bold print on the face of the contract.

Faith has no value of its own, it has value only as it connects us with Him. It is a trick of Satan to get us occupied with examining our faith instead of resting in the Faithful One.

Worse than blind leaders of the blind are bland leaders of the bland.

Our Lord approved neither idol worship or idle worship but ideal worship in Spirit and truth.

I remember when the Titanic sank in 1912, it was the ship that was supposed to be unsinkable. The only thing it ever did was sink. When it took off from England, all kinds of passengers were aboard - millionaires, celebrities, people of moderate means, and poor folks down in the steerage. But a few hours later when they put the list in the Cunard office in New York, it carried only two categories - lost and saved. Grim tragedy had leveled all distinctions.

Jesus is all we have; he is all we need and all we want. We are shipwrecked on God and stranded on omnipotence!

It is a matter of whether one wants to get rich or be rich. We can be rich in Christ Jesus or perhaps get rich in Egypt, but we cannot do both.