When one is driven to climb the ecclesiastical ladder it is easy to embrace a doctrinal position that removes half the competition — using the same Jesus-free method of selective extractions of scripture that justified slavery and other church-endorsed evils. Many...
I helped a man climb a mountain and found that I, too, had reached the top. ----------------------------------------------Gender-neutral version: I helped someone climb a mountain and found that I, too, had reached the top.
Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. It's true for individuals, families, teams, businesses, and churches.
People may spend their whole lives climbing the ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the ladder is leaning against the wrong wall.
Aging is like climbing a mountain. The higher you get, the more tired you become, but your view becomes much more extensive.