Salvation is a helmet, not a nightcap.
It's hard to be optimistic when you have a misty optic.
We may never be martyrs but we can die to self, to sin, to the world, to our plans and ambitions. That is the significance of baptism; we died with Christ and rose to new life.
One hour in heaven, and we shall be ashamed that we ever grumbled.
We need to be preaching a dynamic Gospel and living firecracker lives.
We are not to be isolated but insulated, moving in the midst of evil but untouched by it.