I don't have everything I want but I have everything I need. That's contentment.

Let God Himself be the main attraction at church again.

You can't teach a person to love something. But you can get him to feel the heat of your love for something.

I don't have everything I want but I have everything I need. That's contentment.

Ed Welch says that all counseling is a variation on a single theme: knowing and praying for the counselee. Of all the questions the counselor might ask, then, the central guiding question in the counselor's mind is, "How can I pray for you?

If He wasn't going to use that hard thing for your good, it wouldn't have happened. He had to sign off on every single thing that touches your life.

God brings tests into your life because your faith in Him--your belief that He is in control and that He is good--can be proved only in times when life is hard.