Let your failures refine you, not define you.
The presence of fear does not mean you have no faith. Fear visits everyone. But make your fear a visitor and not a resident.
Don’t be defined by your failures, be refined by them.
Mark it down. You will never go where God is not.
Write today’s worries in sand. Chisel yesterday’s victories in stone.
Here’s what you need to keep in mind. You no longer have yesterday. You do not yet have tomorrow. You have only today. This is the day the Lord has made. Live in it.
Of all the things you must earn in life, God’s unending affection is not one of them. You have it.
Indeed, baptism is a vow, a sacred vow of the believer to follow Christ. Just as a wedding celebrates the fusion of two hearts, baptism celebrates the union of sinner with Savior.
You may go days without thinking of God, but there’s never a moment when He’s not thinking of you.
God’s highest desire is not to make us rich, successful or popular. His goal is to make us His.
Prayer is the hand of faith on the door knob of your heart, inviting Jesus to enter.
To accept grace is to admit failure, a step we are hesitant to take. We opt to impress God with how good we are rather than confessing how great he is.
I choose love. No occasion justifies hatred; no injustice warrants bitterness, I choose love. Today I will love God and what God loves.
God is faithful even when his children are not.
Immerse yourself in the curriculum of grace.
Baptism separates the tire kickers from the car buyers.
There is nothing on earth that can satisfy our deepest longing. We long to see God. The leaves of life are rustling with the rumor that we will – and we won’t be satisfied until we do.
God has forgiven you; you’d be wise to do the same.
God created marriage. No government subcommittee envisioned it. No social organization developed it. Marriage was conceived and born in the mind of God.
If anybody understands God’s order for his children, it’s someone who has rescued an orphan from despair, for that is what God has done for us. God has adopted you. God sought you, found you, signed the papers and took you home.