Month: August 2022

Since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding. (Colossians 1:9)

Sometimes it seems that everybody wants the easy way to the front of the line, a quick way to glory and fast track to success. However, Jesus says, I am the narrow gate. There’s no quick way in; there’s no shortcut. If He weren’t the Christ Himself already, He’d be the perfect patron saint of tollgates. (David Beckett, “EZ-Pass,” Sermons.com newsletter)

Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For everything in the world – the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does – comes not from the Father but from the world. (1 John 2:15-16)

Sometimes it seems that everybody wants the easy way to the front of the line, a quick way to glory and fast track to success. However, Jesus says, I am the narrow gate. There’s no quick way in; there’s no shortcut. If He weren’t the Christ Himself already, He’d be the perfect patron saint of tollgates. (David Beckett, “EZ-Pass,” Sermons.com newsletter)