What are you really scared of? What is it that will cause you to lose sleep?

Where there is no agreed upon foundation, no agreed upon structure, no agreed upon morality, there will never be any peace.

We are in a time with a growing rate of failing marriages. While there are some that fail due to complex reasons, generally it isn’t that complicated.

We all feel taken advantage of, used, abused, ignored, not valued, or just hurt. It’s embarrassing, humiliating, shameful, and frustrating. We all want the moment that comes around and they get theirs.

Two thieves on the cross—one thief joined with the world and hurled insults, one thief watched and listened and stood against the tide of humanity.

Have you reached that point in life yet? It’s the real world. Out on your own - can’t count on anyone, discovered the world doesn’t orbit around you…

Always in his heart, kind of sounds like David’s relationship to God. As David writes a song of Ascents, of “going up” to church, he includes his feelings about his own relationship to God and likens himself to a child clinging to its mother.

David is looking back because he is in a tight spot. Life is hard, the enemy is big, the wall won’t fall, and he needs God desperately. So he remembers. I hear David saying, “Look how far we have come.”

Everything is possible for he who believes. Do you believe?

I want to encourage you not to be afraid to honestly wrestle with this question–do I believe this stuff?