Jesus didn't die for us so we could pretend to be something we're not.

A daydream is an evasion.

You cannot be a Christian and support the Democrat Party.

The Democratic Party is evil.

You have a generation that is saying we are tapping out of religion in many ways. But what they are not saying is that we are tapping out of a serious search for meaning in life.

For many years, I read mystery novels for relaxation. But my tastes were too narrow - and, having read all of Agatha Christie and John Dickson Carr, I discovered that the implausibility and the thinness of the people distracted me unduly from the plot.

As your mind is renewed by the Spirit of Truth, you will not see relationships as opportunities to take from others, but to give.

Rather than act like a victim who cannot do anything about myself or my circumstance, today I start the process of acknowledging my sin and removing these attitudes, actions, and sins that are unworthy of the new creation I am today in Christ. I can be free, and I will be free. I will be ALL that God intended for me to be!

what deliberate steps are you taking to make sure the toxic smoke of the world's way of thinking isn't sifting into your own personal space to poison your mental, emotional, and spiritual "atmosphere"?

This is a timely warning for those who live at the end of the age when digital devices provide information so quickly that thinking is no longer needed.

People's desire and ability to think — to process, gather, and study information to ensure they arrive at an accurate conclusion — has been greatly diminished.

The challenge before us as God's people is to refuse to allow our thinking to be muddied by the spirit of this age.