Memphis was almost like going to California. Beale Street was the black man's street.
We simply can't trust God's power fully until we experience it in the midst of our crisis.
I'm not about to put up a silly skit and preach a 15-minute message on 'how to cope' to a multitude of people who are dying and going to hell. I tremble at the thought.
You may claim to love Jesus but your life proves you are still walking in darkness—confused, befuddled and foggy! When you are truly in love with Jesus, conversing with Him, He turns up the light. There is no darkness at all in His presence. The worst possible darkness to mankind is not in the hearts of God-hating Communist leaders or Christ-hating atheists. It is, rather, the horrible darkness that blinds so-called Christians who refuse to walk in the light.
Are you becoming more sweet-spirited, more like Jesus? Are you looking soberly in the mirror each day and praying, ‘Lord, I want to conform to Your image in every area of my life’? Or has your bitterness taken root, turning into rebellion and hardness of heart? Have you learned to shield yourself from the convicting voice of God’s Spirit?
At first, He shook us very tenderly but now His shaking has become violent, because He has not succeeded in awakening us. . . God is going to shake everything in sight so that He is revealed as the only unshakable power!
Faith comes by hearing all the Word, not just preferred sections.
Authority is quite degrading.
I watch the best. I'm a big fan of Elvis. I'm a big fan of 1950s Elvis when he would go on stage and scare people because he was a force and girls would go nuts! You can say the same thing for Prince or The Police. It's just guys who know that people are here to see a show, so I watch those guys and I love studying them because I'm a fan.
True salvation is freedom from negativity, and above all from past and future as a psychological need.
I don't think you should have to pay to look at graffiti. You should only pay if you want to get rid of it.