The purpose exceeds the pain.

Sometimes, God may prioritize performing a miracle on our hearts and minds over a miracle concerning our circumstances.

Christ sets us free by the power of His Spirit; then He maintains our freedom as we learn to live from day to day in the power of that Spirit.

I don't just commit sin. Apart from God, I am sinful. My problem is not just what I do; it's who I am without His nature.

If Jesus gives us a task or assigns us to a difficult season, every ounce of our experience is meant for our instruction and completion if only we'll let Him finish the work. I fear, however, that we are so attention-deficit that we settle for bearable when beauty is just around the corner.

We were created for the purpose of giving God's invisible character a glimpse of visibility.

some of us have so much defeat in our past that we feel we lost the race before we knew it started.