The author squares man's depravity with still being made in the image of God with this word picture. A vase that has held beautiful roses though now broken, will nevertheless hold something of the fragrance it once contained.

Worship is why we are born and why we are born again.

God desires to reveal to us that His capacity to forgive is bigger than our capacity to sin.

Only a disciple can make a disciple.

To desire revival...and at the same time to neglect(personal) prayer and devotion is to wish one way and walk another.

We ought not to be looking for a place to hide, but a place to give ourselves as an offering to God.

The purpose of God isn't to save us from Hell. The purpose of God is to make us like Christ.