Practice of true community involves responsibilities and actions that do not come naturally to us.

The opposite of retaliation is to entrust ourselves to God, who judges justly.

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

If we are going to learn to trust God in adversity, we must believe God will allow nothing to subvert His glory so He will allow nothing to spoil the good He is working out in us and for us.

Only those who walk in holiness experience true joy.

God's guidance is almost always step-by-step; He does not show us our life's plan all at once. Sometimes our anxiousness to know the will of God comes from a desire to peer over God's shoulder to see what His plan is. What we need to do is learn to trust Him to guide us.

God's grace is not given to make us feel better, but to glorify Him... Good feelings may come, or they may not, but that is not the issue. The issue is whether or not we honor God by the way we respond to our circumstances.