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Sin is much more than doing the wrong thing. It begins withloving, worshiping, and serving the wrong thing..
Grace will expose the deepest issues of your heart, then point you to the Cross which covers everything that's been exposed..
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….
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….
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….
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 ….
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….
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 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….
Our need is so desperate an idea, a thing, a law can't help us. It took one thing, the gift of gifts, God in the flesh, to rescue us..
Sin doesn't always look sinful to us; sometimes it looks beautiful. That's why we need grace to see sin for what it really is - dark, dangerous, ensl….
People struggling with life in a fallen world often want explanations when what they really need is imagination..
I am my biggest marital problem.
It is a sweet thing that we serve a dissatisfied God who has destinations in mind for us that we would never choose for ourselves. It really is a goo….
Every time you ask for forgiveness, you recognize that the biggest problems you face in life exist inside of you, not outside of you..
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….
God's grace doesn't always come in comfortable forms. But it's still grace, and it's still evidence that He loves us..
Sin is powerful, but not as powerful as the liberating power of grace..