Life and death! They seem like complete opposites-at great enmity with each other. But for Paul-and for all who share his faith-there is a unity, because the same great passion is fulfilled in both-namely, that Christ be magnified in this body-our bodies-whether by life or by death.

The more of God's Word you know and love, the more of God's Spirit you will experience.

One of the great enemies of hope is forgetting God's promises.

It is not saving faith to confess Christ as true. Saving faith receives Christ as a Treasure.

God is love precisely because He relentlessly pursues the praises of His name in the hearts of His people.

Homosexual behavior has been exploited, and reveled in, and celebrated in art, for millennia.

Not to abide in Jesus’ love would mean that we stop believing that we are loved by Jesus. We look at our circumstances - perhaps persecution or disease or abandonment - and we conclude that we are not loved by Jesus anymore. That’s the opposite of abiding in the love of Jesus. So abiding in his love means continuing to believe, moment by moment, that we are loved.