The accusations of the voices we hear on a daily basis are deafening. There is no shortage of voices that will remind us of our failures. If God can choose to speak even through the mouth of an ass to get his message across, it seems that Satan has an abundance to choose from for his message
Once an addict always an addict. It may not have hit you, but it will. It always does.
We are born in this world addicted to the Law. We crave "do this or don't do this" and from our first sip, we measure ourselves accordingly. We get high off of our own self-righteousness, creating images of ourselves based on imaginary comparisons. .
The Christian Church loves to preach the Law. It loves to give us lists, steps, and advice. The Church loves to preach "do this" to a people who repeatedly fail to do it.The lists and steps aren't the problem, the problem is that lists, steps, and advice at best are a temporary fix to a symptom of the real problem.
The first artist, only one day into his new life, is given an important creative endeavor. We don't know if he also suffered from the first case of writers block or had to deal with the inner turmoil of staring at a blank canvas, but less than 24 hours into life in the Garden, Adam is given the first creative opportunity.
Slavery turns human beings into assets. Oppression becomes the method of business in order to meet the demands of the master. Tyranny, manipulation, and fear are all wielded to get the slaves to do whatever the master wants.
The Law is the dominant language of our culture. We may not realize it behind a veil of self-improvement, fashion advice, or suggested nutrition plans from lifestyle bloggers, but the predominant message of culture is "Do more. Try Harder."
Every set of instructions ends the same way - frustration, confusion, and a pile of extra pieces. Instructions are the bane of Christmas morning. Instructions make a trip to ikea filled with angst. Instructions have a gift for making us curse toy manufacturers, swearing they added extra pieces.
God's assembling a league of not-so-extraordinary gentlemen. He's gathering ordinary individuals with marginal influence, mediocre careers, and minimal pay. These men and women aren't the ones that are told of in legends. These aren't the men that kids dream about becoming - kids don't go to bed dreaming about working on the assembly line or doing taxes.
It's time to end the rat-race. You can read all the books on entrepreneurship, sign up for the best one-on-one coaching, and even win the grant to kickstart your dream job, and still find yourself living more in a dream world than in the real world.
Satan is the world-class accuser. If he ran a law firm, he’d be its first and most powerful partner. His specialty is accusing and destroying people. Like you.
From the moment you’re accused, he’s prowling around in front of the jury, ready to attack and make his case. He never comes to court unprepared.
A Roman execution device isn't exactly a picturesque scene of divine love on display. It'd be the equivalent to having three criminals side-by-side in electric chairs. Or a firing squad having their criminals in a line with crowds watching and laughing.
“I literally want to poke my eyes out.”
At least that’s the way I feel anytime someone uses the word literally when they really mean figuratively. There’s no doubt that this has become a part of your daily conversations by now, somebody will show up to work and say, “That drive, literally, took me forever.”
Debts never just disappear. You can try to convince your creditor that you’ll do years of penance, but at the end of the day somebody has to pay the debt. Whether you are in debt to the bank or your in-laws, a debt is a debt is a debt. And debt doesn’t magically vanish; debt always demands a payment.
After an experimental treatment turns Wade Wilson into a mutant with healing powers–while simultaneously retaining his wit and a crude sense of humor–Wade Wilson becomes Deadpool and gives himself to hunting down and destroying the man who left him disfigured and ruined.
If you don't want God more than you want anything else, welcome to the club. This is the essence of what we are guilty of in the first commandment, "You shall have no other gods." Our affections and desires, our fears and our trust should always be directed at God alone
