East Coast teams tend to perform worse when they head out west to play basketball since the athletes need to process jet lag. @nyknicks
The win percentage of Eastern teams playing a road game that tips off at the equivalent of 4:30 to 6:29 p.m. ET is 39.7 percent. When the game is at 10:30 p.m. or later, that drops to 34.9 percent.
-Wealth promises security and produces anxiety.
-Fame promises significance and produces loneliness.
-Success promises fulfillment and produces emptiness.
-Sexual freedom promises satisfaction and produces bondage.
The narratives of this age are very good at making promises. They are very bad at keeping them.
The Lord is not a cosmic killjoy sitting at the entrance of a prison. He is the entrance to freedom, liberation and life. And the door is wide open!
Step inside.
The invitation of the First Commandment is not a burden. It is a rescue. It calls you out of the exhausting project of building your life around things that cannot hold it, and into the freedom of a life built around God, the One who can.