Inspiration

"Sometimes the worst place you can be is in your own head."

- unknown

Mom, God's so neat, and heaven's supposed to be so great. Could me and Michael go there Saturday for a sleep-over?

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Our seven-year-old daughter, Clarisa, was not really excited about going to Sunday school, but her little friend talked her into it. After the first class, at lunch, she said, "I like my teacher, and she said if I come to Sunday school every Sunday, she'll show me how I can get a free trip to heaven."

"Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has."

- Billy Graham

"When he called his society together, Jesus gave its members a new way of life to live. 

• He gave them a new way to deal with offenders - by forgiving them;
• He gave them a new way to deal with violence - by suffering;
• He gave them a new way to deal with money - by sharing it;
• He gave them a new way to deal with problems of leadership - by drawing upon the gift of every member, even the most humble;
• He gave them a new way to deal with a corrupt society - by building a new order, not smashing the old;
• He gave them a new pattern of relationship between man and woman, between parent and child, between master and slave, in which was made concrete a radical new vision of what it means to be a human person."

- Stanley Hauerwas