There were those in Corinth who questioned Paul’s apostleship and the inspiration of his words and authority. They pointed out his weakness in body and speech. But they couldn't question the power of his words and the results of his ministry.

Have you every wondered why such men as Voltaire, Robert Ingersoll, Thomas Paine, and Stephen Hawking would spend their lives speaking against God or trying to prove that God does not matter or exist?

To keep the weight of sin off, step on the spiritual scales everyday. 

Don’t let bitterness, fear, or anger about the direction our modern culture is going make you useless to God and to the people around you. You have been placed where you are for such a time as this.

Keep producing works for God. They might not “catch on” or be popular now, but God may use them later on for His glory and the good of man.

Whatever it is, look to Jesus.

Someone has said that the good Lord didn’t create anything without a good purpose – but mosquitoes come close. Rather a strange thought, but a timeless one. Not about mosquitoes, but all the things that mosquitoes might come to represent.

A caterpillar is the larva of a butterfly. When the former becomes the latter, scientists call that process metamorphosis. When Jesus was “transfigured” in Matthew 17:2, that term comes from the Greek word that gives us the English “metamorphosis.” James, Peter, and John witnessed this amazing event, and like them, it should stun us, too. 

 In John 3:16, we see the greatest expression of love, the greatest act of love ever recorded, and the greatest heart of love the world his ever seen.