Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift.
Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn’t.
My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, Commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.
The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed but that he cannot believe anyone else.
For Hope is but the dream of those that wake.