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

Suffering is arguably God's choicest tool in shaping the character of Christ in us.

God is truly on the side of those who work for social justice, especially when we accompany that work with the giving of the Gospel!

God deliberately chooses weak, suffering and unlikely candidates to get His work done, so that in the end, the glory goes to God and not to the person.

The truths of the Bible are never just abstract concepts; they're always related to real people.

What an encouragement to realize that God has reserved you and me for a special task in His great work. In His hands we're not only useful, but priceless.

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