To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God's.

God has yet to bless anyone except where they actually are, and if we faithlessly discard situation after situation, moment after moment, as not being "right," we will simply have no place to receive his kingdom into our life.

We have churches full of people who profess all kinds of stuff that they don't believe. They think that by professing it they're doing something good. Really, they're just deluding themselves.

As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.

Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.

Clinical depression is an extreme form of a 'bad mood.'

Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can't separate them.