“Therefore encourage and build one another up, just as you are already doing” (1 Thess 5:11, BSB). 

When moving mountains, only faith in God will do; but sometimes tunnels just need hard work. 

You can’t have victories without the fight; you can’t make the summit without the climb.

“Christian giving is to be marked by self-sacrifice and self-forgetfulness, not by self-congratulation.” —J. Stott 

Spiritual progress involves growth and learning, but mostly it is fostered by happy obedience. 

If ever there was an example that “the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life” (2 Cor 3:6), this is it! 

Jesus Himself told how the elect ones on the guest list refused. The non-elect came instead (Lk 14:16-24). 

God gave you a non-renewable gift today of 86,400 seconds. I suppose that’s why we call it the present. 

“Nothing with God is too good to be true; the truth is the best of everything.” —R.J. Campbell 

Song gives wings to the soul. We sing our sweetest to the One who put the new song in our hearts.