In Fact, The Gospel Shows

But As I Pursued That Dream Of Upward Mobility Preparing For College, Things Just Didn't Fit Together. As I Read Scriptures About How The Last Will Be First, I Started Wondering Why I Was Working So Hard To Be First.

Prayer Is Not So Much About Convincing God To Do What We Want God To Do As It Is About Convincing Ourselves To Do What God Wants Us To Do.

Jesus Is Challenging That When Addressing "who Is Your Neighbor" And He Has A Lot Of Hard Things To Say About Family, "unless You Hate Your Own Family You Are Not Going To Be A Disciple." He Is Challenging The Limits Of Our Compassion And Our Love As If Someone's Kid Suffers It Should Be As Devastating To Us As If It Were Our Own Kid. That Is What The Early Church Said.

A Pastor Friend Of Mine Said, "our Problem Is That We No Longer Have Martyrs. We Only Have Celebrities.

We Say It Is Idealistic To Think We Can Continue To Live The Way We Live - With 5% Of The World Using Half The World's Resources, With $20,000 A Second Being Spent On War.