God seeks for your individual happiness above all other godly concerns.

HAPPINESS comes first by what comes into your head a long time before material BLESSINGS come into your hand.

(Phillipians 3:14) No Lots wife here. No looking back at Sodom and Gomorrah here. Paul knows it is out there in the future, up ahead wherever heaven is taking us, that we will win "the prize" of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

Christlike love is the greatest need we have on this planet in part because righteousness was always supposed to accompany it. Pure Christlike love flowing from true righteousness can change the world.

There is no convenient Messiah. Salvation comes only through discipline and sacrifice.

To give ourselves totally to another person, as we do in marriage, is the most trusting step we take in any human relationship.

I testify that no one of us is less treasured or cherished of God than another. I testify that He loves each of us—insecurities, anxieties, self-image, and all. He doesn’t measure our talents or our looks; He doesn’t measure our professions or our possessions. He cheers on every runner, calling out that the race is against sin, not against each other.