Aging is not for the weak. One day you wake up and realize that your youth is gone, but along with it, so go insecurity, haste, and the need to please... You learn to walk more slowly, but with greater certainty. You say goodbye without fear, and you cherish those who...
If you knew how quickly people would forget about you after your death, you will not seek in your life to please anyone but God. (circa 387)
From his hospital bed this morning (one-day stay for a minor procedure), Dad asked me to please help him with flowers and a cake for Mom’s birthday. She is turning 75 this weekend. Once at the store, I had to send multiple pictures of options to him before he was...
If you have always been short, chubby, and slow, and your sense of success means playing on an NBA team, failure will be your lot in life. If, however, you are pleased to play on a local playground team with other short, chubby, and slow people, and you have a...
Too many people spend their lives being dutiful descendants instead of good ancestors. The responsibility of each generation is not to please their predecessors. It's to improve things for their offspring.
In worship we often fail to remember that God is the primary audience. We are not to design worship to please a crowd. We engage in worship in order to please God.
What is it about your own miserable works and doings that you think you could please God more than the sacrifice of His own Son?