God turns on its head one form of evil - suffering - in order to defeat another form of evil - that is, our transgressions. It happened at the cross, and it occurs in the lives of followers of Christ every day.

No other religion, no other, promises new bodies, hearts, and minds. Only in the gospel of Christ do hurting people find such incredible hope.

God cares most not about making us comfortable, but about teaching us to hate our transgressions and to grow up spiritually to love him.

God wants us to be a good example to others who are observing us.

The success of God's Word in our lives is linked intrinsically to our application of its truth.

We're not the paragons of virtue that we'd all like to think we are. And so, to shatter that myth, God will use suffering to expose the stuff of which we're made.

God's purpose in increasing our trials is to sensitize us to people we never would have been able to relate to otherwise.