1. Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight paths straight Proverbs 3:5-6

2. The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communication s media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message. Pope John Paul II

5. Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others. Cicero

6. Don't love the world's ways. Don't love the world's goods. Love of the world squeezes out love for the Father. Practically everything that goes on in the world - wanting your own way, wanting everything for yourself, wanting to appear important - has nothing to do with the Father. It just isolates you from him. The world and all its wanting, wanting, wanting is on the way out - but whoever does what God wants is set for eternity. 1 John 2:15-17 The Message

7. Most of it was oral and spoken to illiterate people. They were the first ones to receive it. So when we Make everything academic, we lose something. Eugene H. Peterson There is nothing terribly difficult in the Bible - at least in a technical way. The Bible is written in street language, common language.