You cannot sodomize a Sacrament and expect God to say, 'Well done.
If you are on social media, and you are not learning, not laughing, not being inspired or not networking, then you are using it wrong.
We have two natures within us, both struggling for mastery. Which one will dominate us? It depends on which one we feed.
You say you love rain, but you use an umbrella to walk under it. You say you love sun, but you seek shelter when it is shining. You say you love wind, but when it comes you close your windows. So that...
Glory of the world makes life meaningless. Glory of God fulfills it.
Keep an eye on your responses. Strong responses are about you more than them.
Lord, help us to choose humility over pride. Help us to choose love over our reputation. Help us to choose patience over making a point, and your Word over our feelings. Lord, help us to choose persev...
Not all things can be expressed through words, not all the words reflect the truth.
Letting go of the past, is like opening the flood gates of healing to be set free.
Even now I remember those pictures, like pictures in a storybook one loved as a child. Radiant meadows, mountains vaporous in the trembling distance; leaves ankle-deep on a gusty autumn road; bonfires...
Even if it's being a Beatle for the rest of my life, it's still only a temporary thing.