By your grace, I will not despair. I believe that I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.

When God promises, He's not saying, I'll try. He means, I can and I will.

Repentance is the key that unlocks the door to all that God has for us, but it is not easy.

It's not unlikely that God would lie that would be a matter of probability. It is impossible for God to lie.

If you're wrong in the way you're right, you're wrong even if you're right.

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?

These criminals represent us. One of them recognized Jesus for who he was and received him; Jesus promised that when he died he would be in heaven with him. The other man rejected Jesus and closed his heart. Unlike the first criminal, when he died he didn't go to heaven. He went to hell. In that sense, these two men on either side of Jesus are just like every person. We either embrace Christ as our Savior and spend eternity with him, or we reject him and say, 'I don't believe it. I'll have nothing to do with.' And these people spend eternity separated from him.