1. Never forget the inexpressible joy that you felt when you first accepted Christ in your life and how you recognized the change, even when others may have had their initial doubts.

2. Once you've accepted not only the bad news about yourself but the Good News as well, your "tastebuds" toward others and your situation changes too. Some of the things (and people) we didn't like before we now have the ability to love.

3. Family of Christ: Every person is a brick and all are needed in order to complete the building, where Christ is the cornerstone.

4. The church can be like manure. When its piled up in one place it can stink up the whole neighboorhood but if its spread out it can enrich the whole world. - Louis Pallou

5. Submission is like having one hand tied behind your back. Trying to do something that is contrary to how the world would go about it. It's the ability to lay down the burden of always needing to have our own way. Quite frankley, most things in life are not nearly so important as we think they are!

6. Don't become so heavenly minded that you are of no earthly good.

7. The Lord's prayer according to the Lord (John 17) for the persecuted church throughout the world.

8. The fact that a fish spends his life immersed in water doesn't mean he understands water. The same can be said for those of us in society with it's constant distractions - we don't recognize the very element (and it's dangers) WE are immersed in.

9. The only thing we will take with us is our character (since everything else is burned up in the fire...) Strive for holiness.

10. Legitimate pleasure is that which doesn't diminish, distract, or sidetrack one from his or her original intent (goal)

11. Pleasure can actually choke us to death. Proverbs 25:16

12. All pleasure comes with price tag

13. True pleasure leads to joy.

14. When heaven dims we become luke warm, weak Christians.

15. The leading cause of death is birth.

16. With God we should be content with "sufficient" knowledge of how things were created avoiding the trivilization of God's awesome power.

17. We have 2 ends from which we choose. With one end we sit with the other we think, heads we win, tails we lose.

18. A cynic is someone who is already disappointed with the future.

19. Whether pro-choice or pro-life, each is after the fact of PRE-Choice. The decision (choice) is made prior to any result. One needs to be man (or woman) enough to take enough responsibility for that choice.

20. Someone once said, that getting out of bed every morning is an example of a false sense of confidence.

21. Psalm 5 is an example that it's O.K. to ramble-on when we pray (non-formulaic, personal)

22. The world cannot take a hold of our life and ruin us, for God already has a grip on us (a lesson from Ps 5)

23. Sometimes a person may actually be on your side even though you feel they're on your back
(i.e., constructive criticism, biblical reproof)

21. Psalm 5 is an example that it's O.K. to ramble-on when we pray (non-formulaic, personal)

22. The world cannot take a hold of our life and ruin us, for God already has a grip on us (a lesson from Ps 5)

23. Sometimes a person may actually be on your side even though you feel they're on your back (i.e., constructive criticism, biblical reproof)

24. We need to be aware enough to realize whether our circumstances influence our witness as opposed to our witness affecting our circumstance.

25. It's easy to invite people in (to our lives) when we're sitting on top of the world. We have no problem letting people see us while at our best. Maybe the best thing we can share with people is our needs.

26. We're all in this together by ourselves. Stand firm. When one person panics it causes panic in those around us.

27. Humility is having a balanced view of oneself. Having a poor self image is an act of arrogance because it ignores God. To say you are proud of being humble is an act contrary in terms. Being humble simply means being obedient to God.

28. The further away we get from God the harder it is to come back to Him. God is at work calling us back to Him but it is sin that occupies our attention and thereby silences the plea.

29. If we liken the banquet tables on a cruise ship to the answers to prayer, but we're below deck with spiritual sea sickness, the last thing we want is spiritual food.

30. To be a Christian without prayer is like trying to stay alive without breathing.

31. The biblical symbol for man is wood. Jesus' profession was that of a carpenter. As we know, a carpenter's goal (purpose) is to make useful things out of wood.

32. God uses smaller judgements in our lives to get our attention (when we're involved in sin) so He can hold back on greater judgement.

33. It's not the short term wonders that should impress us but rather the long term fidelity that God grants us.

34. The power (and result) of greed often demands more from us than it is ever capable (or willing) to return.

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