Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country.
Secularism and Religion are both all about your personal performance. The Gospel is the performance of another applied to you.
God sees us as we are, loves us as we are, and accepts us as we are. But by His grace, He does not leave us as we are.
The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe, yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.
God looks at the anxious and says, I tore my Son to shreds for you, and you're afraid I will not give you what you need?
The basic purpose of prayer is not to bend God's will to mine, but to mold my will into His.
You don't fall in love. You commit to it.
The worst of us is not without innocence, although buried deeply it might be.
It is better to meet danger than to wait for it.
Kenny G has a Christmas album out this year. Hey, happy birthday Jesus! Hope you like crap!
What I think is this: Man is responsible for a PART of global warming. MOST of it is still natural.