This section contains short paragraphs, message in an essence, collected under the following headers:

The Bible

• We don't change God's message -- His message changes us.
• Suffering from truth decay? Brush up on your Bible.
• Don't put a question mark where God puts a period.
• Nothing else ruins the truth like stretching it.
• Read the Bible -- It will scare the hell out of you.
• The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing. Peter Lord

Giving/Money

• Compassion is difficult to give away because it keeps coming back.
• The best things in life are not things:
      - Money can buy a house but not a home.
      - Money can buy a companion but not a friend.
      - Money can buy medicine but not health.
      - Money can buy entertainment but not happiness.
      - Money can buy a bed but not a good night sleep.
• The world of the generous gets larger and larger, the world of the stingy gets smaller and smaller,
  Prov 11:24 (The message Bible).
• Give God what's right -- not what's left.
• Jesus names only two masters in the Bible, mammon and himself, you can't serve both.

Relationships

• It is easy to judge others by their actions but yourself after your own good intentions.
• He who angers you controls you.
• One life one wife.
• Happy wife, happy life.
• You must worship the Lord more than David, be stronger than Sampson, or wiser than Salomon to not guard your heart of sexual immorality.

Prayer

• When praying, don't give God instructions - just report for duty.
• A lot of kneeling will keep you in good standing.
• He who kneels before God can stand before anyone.

Church

• Don't wait for six strong men to take you to church.
• Where would the church be if every member prayed, gave, participated as much as I do?
• The church is prayer-conditioned.
• Are you wrinkled with burden? Come to the church for a face-lift.

Our walk with God

• If Jesus isn't Lord of all, He is not Lord at all.
• Exercise daily -- walk with the Lord.
• Worry is the darkroom in which negatives can develop.
• Never give the devil a ride -- he will always want to drive.
• Give Satan an inch & he'll be a ruler.
• Man's way leads to a hopeless end -- God's way leads to an endless hope.
• Plan ahead -- It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.
• When you get to the point where God is all you've got, you will discover that he is all you need. Jack Hollingsworth, Acts 29 ministries.
• In the sentence of life, the devil may be a comma--but never let him be the period.
• When God ordains, He sustains.
• Most people want to serve God, but only in an advisory position.
• Be ye fishers of men -- you catch them & He'll clean them.
• God doesn't call the qualified, He qualifies the called.

Other

• WARNING: Exposure to the Son may prevent burning.

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