Six ways to think and act like Jesus
1 - Avoid anger and hatred.
2 - Have right relationships with God and others.
3 - Keep our hearts from lusting and be faithful.
4 - Live out our marriage commitments
5 - Avoid casual and irresponsible commitment to God.
6 - Show mercy and love to others.
Do not let what you can’t understand keep you from enjoying what God has for you. Ecclesiastes
Love the word of God, and love the God of the word.
The Christian life is not difficult. It’s impossible! Only the Holy Spirit can produce in us what we need to have a faith that is supernatural. If it’s not supernatural it is a hoax.
Don’t do what you want. Do what you ought. You are not your own. (1st Corinthians 6:19)
On the way out he will smile, shake hands, congratulate the preacher and go his way completely unchanged. Tomorrow he will drive just as hard a bargain in his business, tell the same shady stories, cheat on his income tax, shout at the driver ahead of him, bark at his wife, overeat and otherwise live like the son of this world that he in fact is. - Toz
Ecclesiastes embrace uncertainty. diversify and Be Bold experiencing every day. Is it good morning Lord or good Lord it’s morning? Enjoy everything every day that’s not going to get you in trouble with God. There is plenty!
Sin, sorrow, and suffering are, and it is not for us to say that God has made a mistake in allowing them.
When we no longer seek God‘s blessings, we can seek Him for himself.
Why do we put our common sense on God‘s throne and attach our name to it?
Both nations and individuals have tried Christianity and abandoned it, because it has been found too difficult; but no man has ever gone through the crisis of deliberately making Jesus Lord and found Him to be a failure.
Are you looking up or are you looking down. People in a hospital bed can only look up.
Prayer by George Washington at inauguration. “Let me live according to those holy rules which thou hast this day prescribed in Thy holy word Direct me to the true object, Jesus Christ – the way, the truth and the life. Bless Oh lord all the people of this land. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles.”
What I need is God’s surgical procedure— His use of external circumstances to bring about internal purification. - Oz
Lord, I am no Moses but I feel something of his reluctance. It will indeed be a miracle if You can use me. - Toz
The will of God will never take you where the grace of God will not protect you.
Weakness lies at the manger, death at the cross, and Power at the throne. - Toz
He stores up wisdom for the upright.