Parents Are Heroes Already - All They

Yet Each Of Us Also Carries Another Portrait With Us, A Picture Far More Important Than Any In Our Wallet. Psychologists Have A Name For It. They Call That Mental Picture Of Ourselves, Our Self-image. ... There's Always The Person Whose Self-image Is Bent All Out Of Shape, Like A Photo Carried Too Long In A Wallet.the Good News Of The Tremendous Worth We Have In God's Eyes Can Light Up Our Inner Self-portrait.

There Was A Time When Only Specialized Christian Missionaries Needed To Be Able To Defend The Gospel Of Jesus Christ Against The Attacks Of Islam. Today Every Christian Has An Opportunity And Obligation To Present The Gospel Effectively And In Christian Love To The Muslims Who Have Permeated Our Western Society. When Your Neighbor, Your Mechanic, Your Favorite Basketball Player, Your Employer Or Employee, Or Even Your Children's Friends Could Very Well Be Muslims, The Need For Proper Understanding And An Effective Christian Witness Is Abundantly Clear.

My Joy In Life Is Not Because I Have Not Had Any Problems. I Have Joy Because I Have Learned There Is Nothing Too Great For Gods Power To Deal With, Nor Anything Too Small Or Insignificant For His Love To Be Concerned About.

This Is An Important Distinction, Because Most Of The Modern Philosophies That Deny That We Can Know Reality, And Ultimately Truth, Make The Mistake Of Constructing Epistemological Systems To Explain How We Know Reality Without First Acknowledging The Fact That We Do Know Reality. After They Begin Within The Mind And Find They Can't Construct A Bridge To Reality, They Then Declare That We Can't Know Reality. It Is Like Drawing A Faulty Road Map Before Looking At The Roads, Then Declaring That We Can't Know How To Get From Chicago To New York!

The Christian Faith Is Faith In Christ. Its Value Or Worth Is Not In The One Believing But In The One Believed - Not In The One Trusting, But In The One Trusted.