“IN ITALY, FOR thirty years under the reign of Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed.  They also produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance…

In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce?  The cuckoo clock.”

THOUGHT:  It is in the kiln of spiritual battle and adversity that the character of Christ is hardened in us.  Billy Ricks

“You therefore must endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.”  2 Timothy 2:3

–Mike Benson