The simple fact is that the World is too busy to give the Holy Spirit a chance to enter in.

The danger of prosperity is that it encourages a false independence.

To repent means to realize that the kind of life we are living is wrong and that we must adopt a completely new set of values. To that end, it involves two things. It involves sorrow for what we have been and it involves the resolve that by the grace of God we will be changed.

The simple fact is that the World is too busy to give the Holy Spirit a chance to enter in.

Timothy's great value was that he was always willing to go anywhere; and in his hands a message was as safe as if Paul had delivered it himself. Others might be consumed with selfish ambition; but Timothy's one desire was to serve Paul and Jesus Christ. He is the patron saint of all those who are quite content with the second place, so long as they can serve.

For the Christian, heaven is where Jesus is. We do not need to speculate on what heaven will be like. It is enough to know that we will be for ever with Him.

But the best definition of it is to say that heaven is that state where we will always be with Jesus, and where nothing will separate us from Him any more