Muscular Christianity Bruce Gust

According to the book of Romans, if you don't have the Spirit of Christ, you don't belong to Him. That's the bottom line: The Spirit of God living in you. That's what it means to be born again!

You can tell by the way you regard the reality of sin in your life whether or not you're born again.

There's more to believing in the death and resurrection of Christ than simply being able to say that you believe it out loud. To believe it in your heart means that's it's more than a historical truth, it's a personal reality.

Young people have the capacity to do far more than our culture gives them credit for, although that wasn't always the case. A brief rehearsal of history and Scripture reveals not only what a young person is truly capable of, but also provides a motivating incentive to dig in a little deeper and sieze the opportunities and challenges that lie before you, regardless of your age.

I had just read "Team Of Rivals" and a buddy of mine reponded by insisting that my understanding of history and Abraham Lincoln was severely flawed. I determined to refer to some other resources in order to better understand what I believed to be the case and in so doing, uncovered some Biblical principals that constitute a lesson that can be learned not only from a national viewpoint, but a personal one as well.

Three categories of "to do's," all three of them warrant a plan. But you want that plan to be subordinate to God's design for you. Only then are you guaranteed a life and not just an existence.