Take a map and trace the three journeys of the Apostle Paul throughout the Middle East and you will quickly acknowledge, considering how difficult travel was in the first century, that covering the distances he did was no small feat. 

Troubled by the uncertainty you have in your heart as to whether or not, should you stand in the presence of God, you would be greeted with joy or rejection?  Vast numbers of people are there! 

Does it really matter any more what you do, as long as you get away with it? It would seem not, based on what is happening in our world.  Like what?  One poll shows that 79% of those interviewed expect politicians to lie to them.

From the beginning of time people have looked into the heavens, knowing that God was there, wondering what must done to please Him. 

A physician from Antioch, in all probability not a Jew, whom we know as Dr. Luke, wrote more of the New Testament from the standpoint of volume than did the apostle Paul. 

“You can count the apples on the tree, but who can count the apples in a seed?” so goes the old saying. 

You reputation is what others think of you, while character is what you really are.  Your character is revealed, of course, by what you do, either negative or positively, but Ralph Waldo Emerson used to believe that, more accurately, your character is defined by what you think.

“I’ll be home by 9 o’clock.”  But nine comes and he doesn’t show.  The same thing is true of ten, and eleven. 

Integrity is mentioned some 40 times in the Bible, and a study of the several different words which are all translated into English using our word integrity shows that integrity refers to being upright in heart, honest in your actions, committed to doing right regardless of the cost.

A Baptist deacon had an old car that was broken down more than it was running, and decided to sell it while he could still get something out of it.