What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality.
The ancient Apostles were common men, and that was part of their credential.
If today you are a little bit better than you were yesterday, then that's enough. And, if tomorrow you are a little bit better than you were today, then that's enough.
Ordinary people who faithfully, diligently, and consistently do simple things that are right before God will bring forth extraordinary results.
One of the greatest indicators of our own spiritual maturity is revealed in how we respond to the weaknesses, the inexperience, and the potentially offensive actions of others.
When we believe or say we have been offended, we usually mean we feel insulted, mistreated, snubbed, or disrespected. And certainly clumsy, embarrassing, unprincipled, and mean-spirited things do occur in our interactions with other people that would allow us to take offense. However, it ultimately is impossible for another person to offend you or to offend me. Indeed, believing that another person offended us is fundamentally false. To be offended is a choice we make; it is not a condition inflicted or imposed upon us by someone or something else.
People of integrity and honesty not only practice what they preach, they are what they preach.
He (God) usually prefers to work through people rather than perform miracles, so that we will depend on each other for fellowship.
We don't have to be defined by the things we did or didn't do in our past. Some people allow themselves to be controlled by regret. Maybe it's a regret, maybe it's not. It's merely something that happened. Get over it.
I think I want to move forward. I want to move to Brooklyn and find a business Italian guy to take care of me.
I can't keep the sparrows from flying around my head, but I can keep them from making a nest in my hair.