The reason our souls hunger so is that the life we could be living so far exceeds our strangest dreams.
Imagine watching all that God might have done with your life if you had let him.
Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.
True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
Low self-esteem causes me to believe that I have so little worth that my response does not matter. With repentance, however, I understand that being worth so much to God is why my response is so important. Repentance is remedial work to mend our minds and hearts, which get bent by sin.