Taking it easy is often the prelude to backsliding. Comfort precedes collapse.

If the church would only be the church- if Christians would only be Christians- nothing could halt our onward march.

God judges what we tolerate as well as what we practice. Too often we put up with things we ought to put out.

When we are weakest and most despondent, Jesus is most considerate. When there is a break in our progress or we have a spell of depression, he sees the whole of our lives and in the light of that He is longsuffering with discordant details.

A mortician can make a dead man look better than he ever did when he was alive. So churches like Sardis may appear very much alive when they are dead in the sight of the Lord. God knows the difference.

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

Adam tried to hide behind the trees in the garden. There is only one tree that can hide us from Him and that is the tree of the cross.