Sometimes in social settings we're prone to blend in, or at least we want to blend in.

Conformity is our personal default when we're feeling insecure.

But as followers of Jesus Christ, we're called to take a stand, and it takes

guts to choose principle over popularity. Today, on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindall continues

our biographical study of Paul, a man of grace and grit. In this next message, Chuck

will show us, using Paul as his model how to become invincible

when we feel vulnerable.

Chuck titled his message, Standing Tall as Paul stood.

I want to thank you this morning, Father, for the presence of art, for the arts you have created.

You have put together all of the theories of song and of music,

and long before there ever was an earth,

you fill the stellar spaces with the singing of the stars together.

Thank you for instruments that express your praise.

In the ancient days there were instruments and in these days, thank you for fingers that play notes and for lips that play horns,

and for hearts that make music from stringed instruments and for vocal chords that sing your songs.

Thank you, Father.

For loving us enough to get beyond the functional and the practical and lifting our spirits to the place where our souls' deepest needs are met

in words written by poets and lyricists who know how to say what we feel in ways better than we

could express them. Thank you, Father, for giving us a place inside, away from the harshness of the weather,

that we might gather and turn our hearts to you.

Thank you for loving us, though we are so often unlovely.

Thank you for calling us to yourself when we weren't even looking.

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