Choose Life.

Ephesians 5:15,16 “Be very careful, then, how you live… making the most of every opportunity.” One of my life goals is to live such that I don’t have any significant regrets at the end of my life. Two Cornell psychologists called Gilovic and Medvec did some detailed research on the relationship between time as a…

Watch the video here! John 1:14 “The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory.” Soren Kierkegaard tells the story of a prince who fell madly in love with a beautiful peasant maiden in his kingdom. He wanted to marry her, but how? He could order her to marry…

Matthew 6:27 “Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?” The following statistics were published in a business magazine. Stress management experts say that only 2% of our ‘worrying time’ is spent on things that might actually be helped by worrying. The figures below illustrate how the other 98% of…

1 Corinthians 7:23 “You were bought at a cost.” The danger of receiving something for free is that you don’t value it. During the war out here, churches were looted for the metal sheeting that made up their roofs. Interestingly, where the sheets had been donated, the local population allowed the looting to take place;…

James 1:22 “Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.” A little fellow in the ghetto was getting teased by an older boy: “If God loves you, why doesn’t he take care of you? Why doesn’t God tell someone to bring you shoes and a warm coat and…

Matthew 5:29 “If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out.” Two American women were returning from their vacation across the Mexican border when they saw a sick animal in the ditch beside their car. They had a soft spot for the poor little Chihuahua, so they risked smuggling it under a blanket…

1 John 5:13 “I have written these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know you have eternal life.” Under the old covenant there was no assurance of forgiveness, because there were endless sacrifices for sin. Every year 113 bullocks, 37 rams, 30 goats and…

Matthew 25:12,41 “I tell you the truth, I don’t know you… Depart from me, you who are cursed.” During the Soviet era when the Church endured fierce persecution, a secret prayer meeting was underway. Suddenly, the doors burst open, and two-fully armed guards shouted at those present: “Get out of this place if you’re not…

Watch the video here! 1 John 4:4 “The one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.” David Watson wrote: “Christians in the West have largely neglected what it means to be a disciple of Christ. The vast majority of western Christians are church members, pew fillers, hymn singers,…

Colossians 3:23 “Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as for the Lord, not for men.” Os Guiness writes: “Along with the truth of the cross of Christ, the truth of calling has had as much influence in the world as any truth in history – and it will again, when it…