Grace is the voice that calls us to change and then enables us to yield to its transforming power. Grace matters because Jesus matters, and it works because he does.
Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right.
You change your life by changing your heart.
Fear creates a form of spiritual amnesia
God’s love never ceases. Never. Though we spurn him. Ignore him. Reject him. Despise him. Disobey him. He will not change. Our evil cannot diminish his love. Our goodness cannot increase it. Our faith...
Grace is God as heart surgeon, cracking open your chest, removing your heart—poisoned as it is with pride and pain—and replacing it with his own. Rather than tell you to change, he creates the change....
Fear never wrote a symphony or poem, negotiated a peace treaty, or cured a disease. Fear never pulled a family out of poverty or a country out of bigotry. Fear never saved a marriage or a business. Co...
If so, don’t pretend nothing is wrong. Don’t pretend you don’t fall. Don’t try to get back in the game. Go first to God. The first step after a stumble must be in the direction of the cross. If we con...
Our prayers may be awkward. Our attempts may be feeble. But since the power of prayer is in the one who hears it and not the one who says it, our prayers do make a difference.
God wants us to know we are saved, for saved people are dangerous people, willing to face off with the world, unafraid of the consequences since they know that, whatever happens, they will have eterna...
Don’t see your struggle as an interruption to life but as preparation for life. No one said the road would be easy or painless. But God will use this mess for something good. This trouble you’re in is...
The sinless One took on the face of a sinner so that we sinners could take on the face of a saint.
PRECIOUS AS IT IS TO PROCLAIM, CHRIST DIED FOR THE WORLD, EVEN SWEETER IT IS TO WHISPER, CHRIST DIED FOR ME.
I am a spiritual being. After this body is dead, my spirit will soar. I refuse to let what will rot, rule the eternal. I choose self-control. I will be drunk only by joy. I will be impassioned only by...
The big news of the Bible is not that you fight for God but that God fights for you.
You are loved by your maker not because you try to please him and succeed, or fail to please him and apologize, but because he wants to be your father.
Grace is a God who stoops.
Nothing fosters courage like a clear grasp of grace... & nothing fosters fear like an ignorance of mercy
I choose gentleness... Nothing is won by force. I choose to be gentle. If I raise my voice may it be only in praise. If I clench my fist, may it be only in prayer. If I make a demand, may it be only o...
What you have in Christ is greater than anything you don’t have in life.
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