The Line

The Line

Pastor Ty Neal

Matthew 13:44-46
Matthew 6:10
Matthew 6:19-21

All to Jesus I surrender,
All to Him I freely give;
I will ever love and trust Him,
In His presence daily live.


“I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and doggone it, people like me.”

Stuart Smalley (Al Franken)

Philippians 3:7-9

“I will tell you what a tragedy is. I will show you how to waste your life. Consider a story from the February 1998 edition of Reader’s Digest, which tells about a couple who ‘took early retirement from their jobs in the Northeast five years ago when he was 59 and she was 51. Now they live in Punta Gorda, Florida, where they cruise on their 30 foot trawler, play softball and collect shells.’ At first, when I read it I thought it might be a joke. A spoof on the American Dream. But it wasn’t. Tragically, this was the dream: Come to the end of your life— your one and only precious, God-given life — and let the last great work of your life, before you give an account to your Creator, be this: playing softball and collecting shells. Picture them before Christ at the great day of judgment: ‘Look, Lord. See my shells.’ That is a tragedy. And people today are spending billions of dollars to persuade you to embrace that tragic dream. Over against that, I put my protest: Don’t buy it. Don’t waste your life.”

John Piper

“God does not need your good works, but your neighbor does.”

Martin Luther

Isaiah 64:6

“Be half a Christian and you shall have enough religion to make you miserable.”

Charles Spurgeon