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Grace will expose the deepest issues of your heart, then point you to the Cross which covers everything that's been exposed..
Becaise I love God, I want to handle his truth with accuracy, clarity, and specificity. I want to build bridges of understanding from the wisdom of t….
Corporate worship is designed to remind you that in the center of all things is a glorious and gracious King, and this king is not you.
If you are in Christ, you've been chosen to transcend the borders of your own glory, to reach out toward a greater glory, the glory of God..
True restoration takes patience, subtlety, skill, and grace..
We were meant to do more than make sure that all of our needs are fulfilled and all our desires are satisfied. We were never meant to be self-focused….
We, with all of our sin, weakness, and failures are welcome to do what should blow our minds. We are not only tolerated by God at a distance; no, we ….
Every time you ask for forgiveness, you recognize that the biggest problems you face in life exist inside of you, not outside of you..
God's design in our pain enables us to look back and say: He loves me enough to take me where I would have never wanted to go in order to produce in ….
Do you require yourself to remember? In order to live as you can and should, you first must remember who you are and what you’ve been given..
We must begin by admitting that people and situations do not cause us to speak as we do. Our hearts control our words. People and situations simply p….
The cross guarantees that even in your darkest moment God will never turn in disgust and walk away. There is no rebellion, no weakness, no foolishnes….
Remember, it is not your weakness that will get in the way of God's working through you, but your delusions of strength. His strength is made perfect….
There is a God of awesome grace who meets his children in moments of darkness and difficulty. He is worth running to. He is worth waiting for. He bri….
We forget that God's primary goal is not changing our situations or relationships so that we can be happy, but changing us through our situations and….
Love is willing self-sacrifice for the good of another that does not require reciprocation or that the person being loved is deserving.
If you don't keep the eyes of your heart focused on the paradise that is to come, you will try to turn this poor fallen world into the paradise it wi….
The good news of the kingdom is not freedom from hardship, suffering, and loss. It is the news of a Redeemer who has come to rescue me from myself..
Standing near someone you love in a time of trouble is its own reward..
When Christ is my hope, he becomes the one thing in which I have confidence. I act on his wisdom and bank on his grace. I trust his promises and I re….
We must not offer people a system of redemption, a set of insights and principles. We offer people a Redeemer..