We need to call sin what the Bible calls it and not soften it with modern expressions borrowed from our culture.

God makes provision for our holiness, but He gives us the responsibility of using those provisions.

Godly character flows out of devotion to God and practically confirms the reality of that devotion.

If there is not at least a yearning in our hearts to live a holy life pleasing to God, we need to seriously question whether our faith in Christ is genuine.

As we become soft and lazy in our bodies, we tend to become soft and lazy spiritually.

In His infinite wisdom, God allows trials in order to develop perseverance in us and to cause us to fix our hopes on the glory that is yet to be revealed... Our faith and perseverance can grow only under the pain of trial.

Every day that we're not practicing godliness we're being conformed to the world of ungodliness around us.