The grace of God reaches to the furthest extent to those who are prepared to acknowledge their need.

Unfortunately, preachers who distort God's Word are all too common today. Sometimes this springs from a sincere desire to soften hard hearts, but hearts aren't changed by compromise.

Prayer is an acknowledgment that our need of God's help is not partial but total.

Would anyone choose Hell over Heaven? YES! Why? Pride. They don't want to go in the only way you can go in, on your knees. They don't want to admit they are a failure, that their life is a mess.

Many of us are tempted to find the key in doing, but the answer is actually found in being. It is vital that we are routinely humbled by the reminder that Christian life is grounded, not in what we can do, but what has been done for us and what we need done to us.

When grace begins to rule, then our preoccupation with ourselves begins to leave.

Our relationship with God will never be right as long as our relationship with others is wrong.