The Most Important Task Of Your Life

Too Often We Argue About Christianity Instead Of Marveling At Jesus.

God Is Still In The Business Of Coming Down To Earth: To This Cubicle, This Email, This Room, This House, This Job, This Hospital Room, This Car, This Bed, This Vacation. Any Place Can Become Bethel, The House Of God. Cleveland, Maybe. Or The Chair You're Sitting In As You Read These Words.

Ever Console Or Scold People Hurt In Human Relationships That Satisfaction Comes From God Alone? Stop. Adam's Fellowship With God Was Perfect, And God Himself Declared Adam Needed Other Humans.

Will You Keep Going When You Don't Know Why? When You Can't Get Any Answers That Would Make The Pain Go Away, Will You Still Say, 'my Lord,' Even Though His Ways Are Not Clear To You? Will You Keep Going-with All The Grace And Grit And Faith You Can Muster-and Live In Hope That One Day God Will Set Everything Right. Will You Trust That God Is Good? ... Ultimately, The Choice Everyone Faces Is The Choice Between Hope And Despair. Jesus Says, 'choose Hope.'

Joylessness May Be The Sin Most Readily Tolerated By The Church.