If we don’t learn from history, we won’t recognize it when it comes back around. The past has taught us this much: When the church joined with the state, the world was left in darkness.
The greatest miracles of Christ are not the ones we think they are…they are not raising Lazarus from the grave or multiplying the loaves and fishes…the greatest miracles are changing hearts of stone to hearts of flesh…transforming doubt to belief.
Sometimes there’s a fine line between hope and despair. Despair comes with the territory of our broken world. But hope is supernatural and never disappoints.
The dragon’s greatest deception is to make us believe we are worshiping God when we are really worshiping a counterfeit.
There is a vast difference between working for love and working from love. The older brother in the parable of the Prodigal Son was working for reward. But he should have been working from the love he had for his father. Like him, if we never grasp the real equation: Work from love, not for work love, we’ll never have the correct picture of ourselves, our brothers and sisters, or the Father we claim to serve.
There is a monumental difference in the way Saul and David responded to God’s word. This monumental difference had to do with the hearts of these two kings.
