Yes, do you know why no evil shall succeed in your life? Via the Cross, Jesus Christ breaks the cycle of violence and all evil! Billy Graham once said: “From the Cross, God declares I love you.” It means you are redeemed to see the goodness of God in the land of the living! Spiritually, the love of Christ for us keeps Him on the Cross and not the nail; so that, He keeps us away from the path of…
André Trocmé said: “Perhaps it is true that certain violent remedies employed against tyrants have put an end to certain forms of evil, but they have not eliminated evil. Evil itself will take root elsewhere, as we have seen through history. The fertilizer that stimulates its growth is yesterday’s violence. Even “just wars” and “legitimate defense” bring vengeance in their train. Fresh crimes invariably ensue.… But the future of the person who turns to God is not determined by the…
1. “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction. Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.” 2. “Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it. All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and…
Education draws in and out the most potent weapon needed to change self and the world around you. Yes, what you need indeed remain accurate knowledge, wisdom, and understanding! They speak positively to the compendium of real Education! Yes, this is the first step for people to gain the knowledge, critical thinking, empowerment and skills they need to make this world a better place! It should consist of drawing on the best of us, the goodness that comes from us…
D. L. Mayfield said: “By classifying schools as good or bad, failing or desirable, entire neighborhoods have been changed. People with means move into neighbourhoods with “good” schools, driving up prices that ensure lower-income families won’t be able to afford to live there. In an unequal system, choice leads to concentrations of lower-income communities that are often left with fewer resources for their schools. . . . I want what is best for all of God’s kids, which is why…
1. “Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.” 2. “Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience.” 3. “Bear one another burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.” 4 “Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind.”
Have you not heard that without love and compassion, there is no human survival? Love and compassion are not luxuries but essential at all times to edifying others and worship God! Therefore, compassion is the ultimate expression of your best delivery to others in love. Compassion has its starting point in kindness and appreciation in ascending to loving others for human survival. What an inspiration to be compassionate to others? Yes, it works this way: “Jesus replied, “A man was…
Mother Teresa said: “God has identified himself with the hungry, the sick, the naked, the homeless; hunger, not only for bread, but for love, for care, to be somebody to someone; nakedness, not of clothing only, but the nakedness of that compassion that very few people give to the unknown; homelessness, not only just from a shelter made of stone but that homelessness that comes from having no one to call your own.”
1. “A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion. The unfolding of your words gives light; it imparts understanding to the simple.” 2. “Whoever is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly. Making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding; yes, if you call out for insight and raise your voice for understanding if you seek it like silver and search for it…
Listen to Edwidge Danticat In Haiti, “we have a concept called konbit: a gathering with a shared goal. Members of a community come together to accomplish something that benefits the entire community, or a single person in need. Konbits initially began in agriculture. “Today I work your field, tomorrow you work mine,” the Haitian novelist Jacques Roumain wrote of konbits. . . . How do we define community in a time of crisis, which is in many ways what community…